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Hear Sean Crawford s interview with Charlie Wheeler here.
How well have the efforts of Samuel Witwer and his 117 fellow delegates met the tests he laid out in the convention’s closing moments in the half century that’s passed since the convention’s final adjournment?
The question is especially timely now, as the citizens he cited ratified the delegates’ work 50 years ago this month, on December 15, 1970.
While hardly an unbiased observer covering Con-Con was this writer’s first major assignment as a fledgling reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times I believe the document has fared well, albeit with a handful of needed tweaks and a couple still pending. ....

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