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...which must provide a kind of spiritual charter by which all Americans can live together. It is "the constitutional consensus whereby the people acquires its identity as a people and the society is endowed with its vital form . . . its sense of purpose as a collectivity organized for action in history." To Murray, the civic consensus is constructed neither of psychological rationalizations nor of economic interests nor of purely pragmatic working hypotheses. "It is an ensemble of substantive truths, a structure of basic knowledge, an order of elementary affirmations that reflect realities inherent in the order of existence...
Omuko said, "It is the geenral consensus among African leaders" that the U.S. financed Kasavubu's trip to the U.N. when he was recognized as the Congo's representative. It has been further rumored, he added, that the West has been giving aid to Mobutu's army, which recently captured deposed Premier Lumumba...
...Gaulle's whole philosophy of government assumes consensus on the meaning of "national interest," as well as the objective existence of a set of policies most likely to advance this interest. Under these conditions, a leader's duty would be to discover such a set of policies, and to persuade the nation of the necessity of accepting them. It follows that the nation's choice of a leader should be based on the confidence it places in his intellectual and political abilities, rather than on the sympathy it feels with his doctrinal convictions...
Nevertheless, arguing out these issues on the local level may serve a purpose, even though many of the problems are completely artificial. Public politicking produces a consensus and often a belief that the public will is answered (a result usually taken to be more important than being right, except by Mr. Nixon who seems to think that the popular mandate is right). Politics is often the only way to resolve and release the tensions of economic, social, and ethnic conflicts...
...mild recession that should end in the second half of 1961. This was the consensus of 200 business economists attending the convention of the National Association of Business Economists last week in Manhattan. If the economists needed any more figures to support their view, they got them next day from the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The council announced-as had been expected (TIME, Oct. 17)-that the gross national product fell $2 billion in the third quarter to an annual rate of $503 billion-the first drop (except for the steel strike) in two years...