Word: larson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What they discuss when Larson reports to the Chief Executive are the specifics of a job both want to accomplish: translating the Larson explanation of Ike's crusade into his campaign speeches. For the President was impressed not only by Larson's reasoning, but also by the rippling clarity with which he expressed some powerful new ideas about modern-day U.S. politics...
Changed Facts. The heart of Larson's argument is that Dwight Eisenhower's balanced "New Republicanism" is successful because it recognizes a mid-20th century postulate: despite old party labels, most Americans have gravitated toward basic agreement on fundamental issues, toward the moderate approach to government. The Republicans, Independents and Democrats who voted Ike into office are massed at an "Authentic American Center." At the center, they recognize that the facts of political life have changed. Items...
...these reasons a new approach to government is necessary, says Larson. But the forces at the Authentic American Center are bucked by two other groups: 1) "the 1896 school," which stands for unregulated private enterprise, is antilabor and indifferent to the individual; and 2) "the 1936 school," which is hostile to private enterprise, oversolicitous of labor and sensitive to individual needs-but sometimes only from a distance and in the mass. The New Republicanism can hold the center for a considerable time; the Democratic Party, since it ranges from ultraradicalism to ultraconservatism, is not structurally set up to gain...
Awake at me Switch. Fast-rising Arthur Larson was born a Republican in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. At Oxford University he took first-class honors, won a rowing oar that still accompanies him from job to job. He taught law at Tennessee and Cornell, during World War II served with the Foreign Economic Administration. In Washington after V-E day, he watched returning General Dwight D. Eisenhower ride up Pennsylvania Avenue in a victory parade. Larson flipped on his car radio to hear the general address Congress, remembers that "it went right through me. I was an Eisenhower man from...
...months ahead, Ike-man Larson will find a use for his dedication helping New Republican Eisenhower hold the Authentic American Center in an authentic American election year...