ABSTRACT
It is a function of the national committee to make possible one of the most important decisions in Western democracy, namely, the nomination of a candidate for president of the United States. Each candidate for the office of president and vice-president must have campaign headquarters facilities at one of the central hotels. The guideline the national committee provides is to plan on at least four to six such candidates. The range of logistical problems confronting an Arrangements Committee is well illustrated by the subcommittee organization of the Republican Arrangements Committee in 1960. The national committee chairman, the chairman of the convention, and other officials require office space in the convention hall, and one must count on three or four simultaneous caucuses numbering fifty-nine to one hundred people each. Staff campaign experts are of three kinds: strategic, tactical, and operational. A special comment may be made of the functions of the fund-raising expert in a campaign.
