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Gaitskell delivered the Godkin lectures at Harvard in January, 1957. Speaking to capacity crowds in Sanders Theater, he urged the Great Powers "to give the app- essary leadership" in the United Nations, and advocated the admission at Red China and the eventual redistribution of votes on the basis of population...
...number of players in the game approaches the with number, the hazard from irrational trategies, or from here accident, must rise. In the words of G.P. Snow--the Godkin lecturer two years ago--We know, with the certain of statistical truth, that if enough of these weapons are made--by enough different states--some of them are going to blow...
...Volpe has the opposition on the run." Rockfeller declared, "give him the tools and he'll finish the job." Rockfeller stressed his belief, expressed last February at Harvard's Godkin lectures, that "politics is the lifeblood of democracy...
...Spring brought the Godkin Lectures, given this year by Nelson Rockefeller, New York's White-House hopeful governor. Rockefeller's topic was "The Future of Federalism"; the series of lectures he gave on it has been reprinted in a moderately successful book. Rockefeller aired many of the backbone positions of his platform in the Godkin lectures -- his political speeches since then have returned continually to phrases and arguments first heard last winter in Sanders Theatre...
Nelson Rockefeller describes the three Godkin lectures on "The Future of Federalism" that he delivered at Harvard University last February as "the fitting together, into a theme, of the pieces of experience of a lifetime." The lectures, among the nation's most prestigious periodic lecture series, were set up in 1903 with funds contributed by friends of Edwin L. Godkin, editor of the New York Evening Post and the Nation, who died in 1902. Excerpts from Rockefeller's lectures, which constitute a revealing record of his philosophy of government and politics: On Federalism: "The critical political decisions...