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...what had been accomplished. To describe the feat, Nixon reached for a superlative and found a big one. "This," he announced, "is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation." That seemed somewhat sweeping for a President who has instituted weekly religious services at the White House: in the Christian view, the birth of Christ surely must rank as a greater event in the world's chronology since Genesis...
Cautious Concern. There is concern among Asian allies as to what turns U,S, policy is taking. The Administration has already shown that it places the highest priority on disengaging from Viet Nam, and Washington well recognizes that this causes jitters in Asia. Said a top White House aide: "Relations between the U.S. and many parts of the world, but particularly Asia, are at a turning point. There is an inevitable concern in many countries, especially in Asia, as to what the American post-Viet Nam role in their part of the world will look like...
Accordingly, Phillips would work toward a Republican majority* by embracing disgruntled white former Democrats. He sees voting strength in the suburbanites who flee the cities when the blacks move in. He would plow the Midwestern blue-collar enclaves, where white lower-middle-class voters fear economic competition from ambitious blacks. Special emphasis would be given to what he calls the "sun belt"-prospering areas such as Florida, Texas, Arizona and California-where middle-class whites cherish their freshly earned fortunes...
Phillips, among others, sees the Deep South and the border states as a future stronghold of the G.O.P. "Now that the national Democratic Party is becoming the Negro party throughout most of the South," says Phillips, "the alienation of white Wallace voters is likely to persist." He reasons that the G.O.P. must be conservative enough to undercut George Wallace or any third-party leader like...
Cleavages. To an extent, the strategy that is set forward in Phillips' book is an aggrandized version of the 1968 Republican presidential-campaign strategy-though Nixon, in his pre-election speech on new alignments, specifically sought to appeal to both black and white liberals. Phillips acknowledges that he expects to be accused of deepening racial discord and promoting segregationist politics, but, he adds: "I don't say that it should happen, I just say that it does happen. We have always had these ethnic cleavages, despite a lot of effort to pretend that they will go away...