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group concerns and ideological purity, and get down to the business of practical, broad based and genuinely equitable politics.
To this end, over the last several months, Robb, Nunn, Gephardt and others have been working to put together the leadership council.
Understandably, their efforts had been regarded with considerable skepticism and suspicion by the Democratic National Committee leadership. , Last week, however, at a meeting in Washington with DNC Chairman Paul Kirk, Robb and his allies seemed to make peace with the committee and gained Kirk’s reluctant approval of the new council and its objectives.
Later in the day a second meeting was reportedly held which was hosted by the council organizers. It was attended by some two dozen ranking party members, including former DNC Chairman Robert Strauss, House Majority Leader Jim Wright and former Treasury Secretary William Miller. It was clear that Robb and his assocites had received a green light from the DNC and the party elders to proceed with the organization of their council.
What all this may mean for the future of the Democratic Party is, of course, anything but clear. Whatever it means, however, it is the first time in living memory — if ever — that a governor of Virginia has stepped forward to take such an initiative in national party affairs.
And the guess here is' that how it all works out will have a great deal to do with not only the future of the national Democratic Party, but also with the future political plans of Gov. Chuck Robb.
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