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...nomination would 1) foreclose any hope of his winning it, and 2) seriously damage any other moderate candidate's chance. During a 1966 post-election vacation at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, Rockefeller outlined a plan to fuse factions in the national party from the center leftward in a "consensus" that would provide "practical alternatives to the present Administration" in both policies and a candidate. The 25 Republican Governors (now 26) were to be the spearhead of the movement, and Rockefeller soon settled on Romney as its beneficiary. Rockefeller believed himself incapable of filling that function...
...minute tapes were made of each member walking, standing and sitting. Watching themselves, most participants concentrated at first on what they considered their undesirable features, such as overweight, poor proportions or aging. But after they had seen the video tapes, most were able to see themselves less critically. The consensus: "Each body seems to fit nicely with each face." While none of the group reported an instant cure of an old, severe neurosis, many found that soon after they shed their clothes they also shed inferiority feelings about their own bodies. As a result, they were less tense and embarrassed...
Such restriction is often beneficial. At its best, it amounts to a requirement for valid explanation, for honest justification of U.S. actions. But as Lyndon Johnson continues to seek a consensus of approval, he remains a prisoner of critics who are often capricious. Many of the same people who urged Franklin Roosevelt to come to the aid of the Spanish Republic and fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War now call for a retreat from a fight against Communism in Viet Nam. One of their reasons: it is a civil war. Some of the loudest dissenters from any U.S. military...
...fact, Heren likes the institution of the U.S. presidency because it reminds him of "a latter-day version of a British medieval monarchy," with the Congress cast as the barons and the Supreme Court filling the role of the church. He even goes so far as to suggest that consensus is the contemporary U.S. version of the divine right of kings, and he calls presidential staff advisers "King...
...Council will also try to reach some decision on the Hershey memorandum today. At the Council's last meeting, a three-hour debate failed to produce any kind of consensus among members on the matter. A motion by Martin H. Peretz, instructor in Social Studies, which was tabled at the close of the meeting, is expected to be re-considered today...