Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of President Johnson's insistence that the Senate act favorably and at once on the appointment of Justice Fortas [Sept. 13], a bit of history may be interesting and enlightening. Soon after President Eisenhower announced that he would not be a candidate for another term, Senator Philip Hart (Michigan Democrat) introduced a resolution, stating, "Whatever the outcome of the presidential elections in November, a new administration will take office. None of us knows which political party will direct that administration. I suggest this is a most appropriate time for the Senate [then controlled by the Democrats] to record...
JANE DURIE Mountain View, Calif...
...days of a passive presidency belong to a simpler past. Let me be very clear about this: 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. Under a Nixon Administration, the presidency will be deeply involved in the entire sweep of America's public concerns. The President today cannot stand aside from crisis; he cannot ignore division; he cannot paper over disunity. He must lead...
...Cleaver would have monopolized the course. He was to have been one of 12 speakers, including a psychiatrist, a Mexican-American writer, and Oakland Chief of Police Charles Gain, whom the Panthers scarcely view with academic detachment. For all that, Cleaver's appointment to speak produced an incendiary reaction. Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...
...president Wesley E. Profit '69, who made the announcement yesterday, said that he hoped members of the other groups would inject life into PBH programs by providing more students with other points of view...