ABSTRACT
The national committees and the agencies of the committees are the conduits and apparatus through which administration policies, opposition policies, and party platforms get enunciated. The national committee staffs and some of the committee members are clearly in a position to make what may be called party policy, bearing in mind the limited impact of platforms alone. The Democratic Advisory Council (DAG) was the instrument of the non-Southern presidential Democratic Party. The idea of an advisory council to engage in policy-making is an old one at the national committees, although nothing so formal as the DAC had ever been attempted by the Democrats. The products of Advisory Council and its committees were offered as recommendations for party or governmental policy and as general contributions to the democratic dialogue. The intent of the Advisory Council's managers was to keep in the forefront the political issues which they thought would produce the best pro-Democratic and anti-Republican impressions.
