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...Aware of the current presidential campaigns, we feel that an amendment to the last line of our Pledge of Allegiance should be considered. It would read, "one nation, under God, indivisible, with law and order...
...Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept. 27] and the plight of Russia's present generation of outstanding authors. Even under the most onerous of conditions the human spirit is capable of producing artistic works of outstanding merit. I hope that articles such as this one will help alert Westerners to the current deplorable situation in the U.S S R. and give a better understanding of the indomitable Russian spirit...
...Party. Other hooks are pulling at the two-party fabric itself. Aaron Wildavsky, chairman of the political science department at Berkeley, sees 1968 as a possible prelude to a general political realignment, with the Republicans having more at stake in the long run than the Democrats. Writing in the current issue of Transaction, Wildavsky reasons that if a "real Republican like Nixon cannot win under present favorable circumstances, there would not appear to be much hope for the Republican Party as it is now constituted." The G.O.P.'s far right might be driven to merge with the Wallace faction...
However uncomfortable its current condition, the U.S.'s oldest political party* is not quite in extremis. Many members remain loyal. Even in this conservative year, the Gallup poll finds that 46% of the public still identifies itself as Democratic (though it is not necessarily prepared to vote that way in November) compared with 27% who claim the Republican label. In 1860 the party was in such horrendous shape that it held two conventions and ran two candidates against Lincoln. But by the '70s, the Democrats were united again. The rhythm of American politics invariably brings forward new issues...
Another possibility is that Nixon or Humphrey might win the presidency in the House - and then find himself with a Vice President of the opposite party after the Senate has acted. One scenario now current in Washington...