Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That the old Democratic coalition is broken has become a political cliche. The question for the immediate future is how the party will attempt to construct a new coalition in view of the wholesale defection of the South, the disaffection of many middle-income families, the revolt of many liberals and young voters...
...concern was to avoid a serious error-hardly the sort of strategy designed to fire imaginations. But it can also be argued that the Democrats-the majority party-were bound to recover from their low point, and that Nixon had to play it safe. His aides certainly take this view. They insisted even after Nixon's narrow electoral escape that if they had to do it again, they would change nothing-including the surely damaging decision not to debate Democratic Candidate Hubert Humphrey...
...General who would fight crime with the "kind of aggressive leadership that Ulysses S. Grant brought to the flagging Northern cause in the Civil War," and hinted that his Supreme Court appointees would place less emphasis on the rights of criminal defendants than has the Warren Court. An Activist View...
...spent eight years under a man who was wary of the powers of the office, he declared in a speech on the presidency-one of his best-on Sept. 19: "The days of a passive presidency belong to a simpler past. The next President must take an activist view of his office. He must articulate the nation's values, define its goals and marshal its will...
That, of course, is one of the other criticisms, a feeling among black students that the course should have a black point of view...