Word: government
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...aimed squarely at the national constituency that Nixon must rally if he is to be able to govern effectively. It was yet another effort to recruit a coalition from among the sundered political and ideological factions of the country, an effort he is bound to continue...
...many U.S. restaurants or hotels-except as a servant. Now, almost the last vestige of segregation has been wiped off the law books. A Negro votes in the Senate; another sits on the Supreme Court; until this week, a third sat in the President's Cabinet. Black mayors govern Cleveland and Gary, Ind., while in the South, nearly 400 serve in all kinds of elective offices. Black faces are now common in TV commercials and magazine ads; some corporations prize black executives as highly as computers. Proportionally, there are far more blacks in good jobs today than there were...
...fellows fault the Constitution on one familiar ground: that it was designed for an agrarian society with an elite electorate and disenfranchised majority. Now the U.S. is a highly industrial, urbanized and interdependent nation in which the electorate, though fully enfranchised, is paradoxically less able to influence Government bureaucracies. Moreover, say the fellows, the Constitution's original architects were devout Newtonians, who applied to human government the same kind of clocklike checks and balances that were then thought to govern the plan ets. Now scientists see the universe as a system of or ganic and symbiotic processes, and American...
Mesthene said that to govern the nation we must rely more and more on "technocrats," experts in technology. But it will be difficult to make these experts accountable to the people unless the people work harder at their public role to understand what the technocrats are doing...
Thus the man who sought to govern by consensus could not even hold together his own party. The politician who attempted-with much success-to complete the unfinished business of the New Deal ended by presiding over a nation beset by class and racial tension. The President elected in 1964 by the largest popular majority in history had to admit that the interests of peace and national unity would best be served by his renunciation of power...