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Much of the independent vote in American presidential elections is a myth, stated Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr., in his lecture, "The Two-Party System: Is There a Choice?" last Thursday afternoon in Lamont...
Citing figures on the last Presidential election, Palamountain asserted that Stevenson's loss in 1952 was due at least as much to Democrats' failure to vote as it was to the relatively small number of independent votes for the Republican candidates and to the loss of Democratic votes to Eisenhower...
Defending the two-party system against those who claim that it does not greatly matter whom we elect as President, Palamountain said that there is an important difference in the two parties' interpretations of the Presidency. He conceded that the men who make the policies in many government offices remain the same regardless of the existing administration, but asserted that Eisenhower has a "Whig" view that Congress is an equal and co-ordinate arm of the Government. Recent Democratic presidents have followed the policy that the Chief Executive is the "Voice of the people" whose business it is to tell...
...Party System: Is There a Choice?" Will be the third lecture in the Afternoon Lecture Series today at 3:00 p.m. in Lamont Library Forum Room. Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr., associate professor of Government at Wesleyan University, will be the speaker...
...succeeding Thursday afternoons the speakers will be: Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government at Harvard (July 19); Joseph C. Palamountain, associate professor of Government at Wesleyan (July 26); Denis Johnston, professor of English at Mount Holyoke (August 2); and, to conclude the series, Glen Haydon, Kenan Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, on August...