He was also a lead author of a definitive early party history published in 1993.
For the first time in party history, it was shut out of the legislature.
He and four others managed to be elected to the legislature, but with the lowest vote in party history at 16.4%.
It is generally known as the "Summing up party history" phase.
For example, they were shut out of Ontario for the first time in party history.
Officially, party spokesmen depicted the conference as the most open meeting of its kind in party history.
It was the fourth-best performance in party history, approaching the level of popular support enjoyed in the 1980s.
Senior leaders restudied party history and attempted to reach agreements on major issues by admitting to "errors".
These guys, like so many compassless folks in politics, seriously misread the American electorate and recent third party history.
But Mao omitted key elements from his accounts of party history and Snow missed others.