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...second Myth imparts a little less rosy glow to the South. This is the myth of the Redneck South, the South of Klan rallies, midnight lynchings, and torchlight processions. This dream has George Wallace as its star, not Thomas Jefferson. The supporting cast is made up of illiterate brutes and lumbering semi-humans who blindly destroy any thinking creature...
...Jefferson City...
...Your excellent Essay [Sept. 20] concerning the failings of our Electoral College was most pointed, as far as it went. You cited three presidential elections, those of Jefferson-Burr, Clay-Adams-Jackson-Crawford and Hayes-Tilden, to illustrate your indictment of the college's utility. It is of interest that two of these elections and perhaps the course of American history were decided in each instance by the margin of a single vote. Adams won by the vote of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Hayes by the 8-to-7 vote of an electoral commission that awarded...
Jogginq Institutions. The sleeper is Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie.* In the western Pennsylvania city of Washington last week, Muskie gave an impressive display of coolness. For three minutes, he stood silently at the microphone in front of the county courthouse as some 40 students from Washington and Jefferson College yelled: "Stop the war! Stop the war!" When one screamed "Say something!" Muskie allowed: "Well, that's not a bad idea. If you will give me the chance, I will try." A student replied: "You have a chance...
...AUTOMATIC PLAN was first described by Thomas Jefferson in 1801 and was urged as recently as 1966 by Lyndon Johnson. It would abolish the electors, award their votes to each state's popular winner, and thus eliminate unpledged and "faithless electors" (17 in the past two decades) who might break their party pledges. Chief drawback of the automatic system: it would not abolish the two features that contribute to the election of minority Presidents: the winner-take-all system, and the unequal weights given to voters in different states...