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...Merk joined Frederick Jackson Turner in the "Westward Movement" course. Some thirty yers erlier Turner had introduced the concept of the "frontier" as the dominant factor in American History...
...system counter by claiming that education is a discipline, and that men must be forced to keep their dull noses to the grindstone. They claim that students would spend their time in less noble pursuits were they not stricken with report-carditis. This argument, although partly true, inverts the concept of education...
...Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1955, drew in his breath and gave his polite answer: No, he did not think it would be right for him to come to lunch. Why? On that very afternoon he planned to make a speech on the Senate floor bitterly attacking the White House concept of "Modern Republicanism" and President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion budget...
...Democratic principle that the people of the U.S. should be "federally born, federally housed, federally clothed, federally educated, federally supported in their occupations, and die a federal death, thereafter to be buried in a federal box in a federal cemetery." In Modern Republicanism he saw only "a splinterized concept of Republican philosophy." Of the Eisenhower budget he cried: "It subverts the American economy because it is based on high taxes, the largest deficit in history, and the consequent dissipation of the freedom and initiative and genius of our productive people, upon whom the whole structure of our economic system depends...
Between now and November 1958, Dwight Eisenhower's concept of Modern Republicanism will be in for a critical test. It will be attacked bitterly by the unmodern Republicans and attacked happily by the Democrats*, whose own deep party split is minimized by the fact that they do not have a President in the White House. When Republican leaders from eight Midwestern states met in Omaha last week to talk strategy for the 1958 elections, President Eisenhower told them that the party is only as strong as its local leadership. To link that oddly assorted local leadership into national control...