Word: governability
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...Town Blues Sir: "John Lindsay's Ten Plagues" [Nov. 1] illustrates the tragic fate of honest and idealistic men in today's political structure. The mayor has devolved from hero to scapegoat for trying to govern with principle. It is sad to see a fickle public turn on a man whom they hailed as "the hope of the nation" such a short time...
...party. But it acted coolly, picking and choosing among candidates for high office and low. And it laid to rest some phantoms that had threatened to haunt the Republic and the two-party system for years. Yet the nation denied Richard Nixon the really massive "mandate to govern" he had pleaded for. In fact, the vote was in many ways a reflection of the divisions that have been tormenting the country all year...
...training, George Orwell should have been a Blimp. Born Eric Blair, into a military-official family, he went on scholarship to a spartan prep school designed to groom likely lads for their destined place in the Establishment. Like any dutiful upper-class English boy, he journeyed East to govern the lesser breeds as an officer in the Burmese police. The experience was decisive. His sketch Shooting an Elephant is a picture in microcosm of two imperial centuries of interracial injustice and violence. Unlike most people, he could take it but he could not dish it out. Back home on leave...
...candidates themselves seemed resigned to whatever came their way Nov. 5. Nixon was determined not only to win, but to win big so that he could govern with a clear mandate. There was probably not even a notion of what he would do should he lose; law would certainly seem dull. Just as bent on victory -and apparently convinced it is in his grasp-Humphrey would no doubt be better prepared psychologically for defeat at this juncture and would work for the next four years to unite the party...
...this year. President elect Nixon should read the vote not as a mandate so much as a warning. He will enter the White House with little personal prestige or popoular support, and without the Congressional support that he had expected. Therefore, if he is going to be able to govern, he will have to end the war quickly and not necessarily "honorably." And he will have to redirect this country's resources to its own disintergrating cities, and not necessarily with that respect for the social beneficience of free enterprise that both major candidates have been extolling this fall...