Word: consensus
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...week's end the world champions had settled down with the rest of the teams for the 154-game grind, and the sportswriters had dutifully filed their predictions. The overwhelming consensus: the Yankees and the Dodgers again...
This central fact is now self-evident to many American political leaders of both political parties, to newsmen, government officials, and to a large segment of our people. But will it become self-evident to enough Americans to provide the consensus necessary for a new orientation of our national purpose and policy while there is still time for positive and creative action...
...question, except perhaps in the spiritual as well as material upheaval that might develop out of a nuclear war. Therefore, the new majority will almost certainly be based on one of the existing parties, as on two of the three previous occasions in our history when a new consensus was forged from established political groups...
What this new consensus will support and eventually demand is informed, conscientious, positive action over a long period of time and on many fronts in the direction pointed by the conception of the world as an organic community, divided though it may now be by Soviet ambitions. This effort will call for the full use of our material, physical, and moral resources on a scale which the American people have not yet contemplated in times of peace. Working politicians and students of government both agree that the initiative for such a national commitment must come primarily from the executive...
...consensus will necessarily accept and vigorously continue the struggle to create rising standards of living and opportunity here in America. Yet the factor which will distinguish it from its predecessors is its realization that freedom in this tightly inter-related world is becoming indivisible...