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...backed Senator Jacob Javits' original plan to have some group identify and spotlight major inflationary wage-and-price hikes before they take place, but did not feel it was a job for the CEA. Trying to reconcile all this, Speechwriter William Safire wrote ten drafts before a reluctant consensus was reached...
Many factors will determine how Nixon responds to that pressure over the next two years. The consensus in Washington now is that the Southern strategy -more accurately the Middle American melody long played by Nixon-will continue pretty much unchanged. The Upper South and the Border states will still be winnable by the President. The approaches he has taken on race and law-and-order remain as relevant in Southern California and South Dakota as in South Carolina. Both philosophically and politically, Nixon will find it impossible to move right of Wallace or left of the national Democrats. Therefore...
...Faculty had always operated by consensus, but in the Spring of '69 the consensus was breaking down...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Jefferson Barnes Fordham, L.H.D., dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Martin Meyerson, LL.D., president-designate of the University of Pennsylvania. The first president in the university's history to be chosen by a consensus of faculty, trustees and students...
...result, high Government officials in the U.S. tend to hang on to office grimly, despite their disagreements. Dedicated to consensus politics, not ideology, they seem to be horrified at the thought of rocking the boat or making a scene. When men do quit eventually on principle, they usually tiptoe out on stocking feet, leaving behind bouquets, smiles and warm letters. That is how Dean Acheson bowed out as Under Secretary of the Treasury in 1933 after a dispute with F.D.R. over fiscal policy. Roosevelt was properly appreciative. Some years later, when another official left with less discretion, sending the White...