“But I couldn’t help think, when I heard Mr. Connell talking, about the time I wrote a political platform for a political candidate, who can remain nameless. It wasn’t long, after we got through with the platform in that negotiation, when someone said, ‘That’s a fine platform.’ I said, and I meant it, ‘Yes, it touches on every subject that is important to the people of this state, and it avoids every issue.”