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Educators see the registration drive in a broader context, linking it to the traditional civics and government courses required in the schools. Detroit Superintendent of Schools Arthur Jefferson plans to invite elected officials and local experts on housing and energy to talk to students. "I want to give the kids substantive information prior to the 1980 election," he says. "I want to sensitize them to the political process and the issues so they will be so hyped up they will want to vote...
...registration drive, so it is up to the schools to follow through. The voluntary Georgia program has not been particularly successful. Many high school principals, black and white, simply ignored it. Local branches of the Michigan N.A.A.C.P. plan to call on school superintendents to get them moving, and Jefferson will meet with Detroit high school principals to urge each of them to deputize a registrar to keep track of the students as they reach voting age. Madison envisions a voter registration rock concert held in Motown. Admission: one voter registration card...
Your concise and rational analysis should be required reading of every student, every elected official, indeed every citizen of this country. Perhaps then, when the man on horseback finally does arrive, he will be in the tradition of Jefferson, not Hitler...
...concerns are the ones that seem to me to be conservative in the right sense: concern for the poor, concern for peace, concern for social harmony." A humanities professor at Johns Hopkins and a classics scholar, Wills has written scathingly of Richard Nixon (Nixon Agonistes) and brilliantly of Thomas Jefferson (Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence). His latest work: Confessions of a Conservative. Wills' column appears in 70 newspapers...
Journalists fared somewhat better in America. Here, the press played an essential part in bringing off the American Revolution. But that did not assure popularity. George Washington came to believe that the press should be firmly "managed" and kept in its place. Jefferson, kinder to the press than to the courts, disagreed and declared grandiosely that "nature has given to man no other means [than the press] of sifting out the truth either in religion, law, or politics." (In fairness, it should be noted that later he declared himself "infinitely happier" once he had stopped all his newspaper subscriptions...