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...midst of a debilitating war, a racial upheaval of immeasurable proportions, and a crisis of seemingly irreversible decay in its cities. In such circumstances, when the President grandly declares that the country never had it so good, he is adding a few more voters to the great consensus that he is creating-against himself...
...other sex-law issues, the surveys suggest that Americans tend to disapprove publicly what they practice privately. Now the consensus is having political effects. Last spring Colorado became the first state to legalize hospital abortions on three principal medical grounds. Based on a model code drafted by the American Law Institute, the new statute authorizes abortion whenever a pregnancy 1) threatens grave damage to the woman's physical or mental health, 2) results from rape or incest, or 3) is likely to produce a child with a severe mental or physical defect. Even then, abortions require unanimous approval...
Last winter the Federation leaders refined the vague consensus of the February meeting into three specific requests: a pay increase that would have meant $800 a year more to most teaching fellows; the abolition of the pay differential Harvard maintains between teaching fellows who have completed residence requirements for their doctorate and those who have not; and a redefinition of the University's criteria for measuring a teaching fellow's work load...
...against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack: "L.B.J. is at work again. The next thing you know, we'll be reading that the bombing of China was led by a Negro." And a Boston psychiatrist detected L.B.J.'s heavy hand of consensus behind it all. The next Cabinet bride, he said, will exchange vows with "a Navy officer who is half Jewish and half Italian with kin in New York and California. The ceremony will take place in a helicopter over Haiphong...
Unlike Diefenbaker, Stanfield is a consensus man. "I'm not interested in empty decision making just to show I am decisive," he says. His policies will differ from the Liberal program mostly "in terms of priorities." He is a progressive who sees no "original sin" in government economic planning and built so elaborate a welfare program in Nova Scotia that he was called a Conservative socialist. At the same time, he wants Canada's growing welfare state to be administered in a more businesslike way. Like Pearson-and unlike Diefenbaker-Stanfield believes broadly in warmer relations with...