Word: ripon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gilligan to recognize that the man who defeated him was and is an outstanding liberal and intellectual-- who happens to be a Republican. Indeed. Mr. Geoghegan should be glad that his next-door neighbor was defeated by a better man. Terry A. Barnett '67 2L Saxbe Research Director President, Ripon Society...
...Moynihan's aides are former fellows of the Institute: Stephen Hess, author of a Nixon biography and a former Eisenhower aide-whose name had been disclosed earlier-and Christopher C. DeMuth, former secretary of the Ripon Society and a member of the staff of Sen. Charles Percy...
...groups which made American pluralism--the workers, the immigrants, the blacks and the poor--are virtually unrepresented within the Republican party, and it is for this very reason that the Ripon Society can stay comfortably within the GOP no matter how conservative the party may become. The Ripon Society can be "policy-oriented" because it represents almost no one: its members are, above all else, disinterested. There are no strong lobbies within the GOP for draft reform, or public housing, or aid to black businesses, or pro-labor legislation, simply because the groups which seek these kinds of programs...
...REMAINS to be seen whether the Republican liberals will be able to mount a strong and consistent lobby for progressive government during the Nixon Administration. Already, one major feature of the Nixon platform--the decentralizing "black power" approach to the ghettoes--traces back to a paper prepared by a Ripon member at the Institute of Politics at Harvard. But it is difficult to assess the real meaning of his plan as Nixon expounds it--or the importance the candidate genuinely attaches to it in a year when every presidential aspirant is required to produce some kind of "solution...
...even marginal, position with the GOP, their political rootlessness within the party of the rich and the wellborn, suggests that the GOP liberals may not have much effect on the crucial decisions to be made on Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the problems of the cities. Ultimately, the Ripon people and the Republican liberals whom they represent may encounter once again the fundamental problem facing men who enter politics armed only with ideas and a non-pluralist ethic of public service: they just can't find a lever on power...