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...Senatorial race, Judge Marlow Cook, a Republican, defeated the Democrat, Katherine Peden, to keep possession of Thruston Morton's seat for the GOP...
While the Democratic platform pledged a "balanced defense" and a "vigorous research and development effort," its emphasis was on the need to "recognize that vigilance calls for the twin discipline of defense and arms control." The GOP's call "to restore superiority" is more likely to impress Americans wearied by the long war in Vietnam...
...apparently become clear to Hatfield that the time has come to begin rallying anti-war Republicans to a position of loyal opposition within the party. Like John Lindsay, the favorite Republican of most Ripon members, Hatfield would have liked to see the GOP seek the support of the McCarthy movement...
...groups which made American pluralism--the workers, the immigrants, the blacks and the poor--are virtually unrepresented within the Republican party, and it is for this very reason that the Ripon Society can stay comfortably within the GOP no matter how conservative the party may become. The Ripon Society can be "policy-oriented" because it represents almost no one: its members are, above all else, disinterested. There are no strong lobbies within the GOP for draft reform, or public housing, or aid to black businesses, or pro-labor legislation, simply because the groups which seek these kinds of programs...
Whether they are able to exert a continuing influence on policy under President Nixon may prove to be a matter of some importance to the future of this country. Their weak, even marginal, position with the GOP, their political rootlessness within the party of the rich and the wellborn, suggests that the GOP liberals may not have much effect on the crucial decisions to be made on Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the problems of the cities. Ultimately, the Ripon people and the Republican liberals whom they represent may encounter once again the fundamental problem facing men who enter...