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...standard for judging this race is not hard to find: how does each candidate interpret and propose to solve the crucial problems facing the next Governor? By consensus of most independent observers, those problems are (1) a crisis in governmental finances and in the state's economy in general and (2) governmental corruption. Volpe's record and public utterances reveal a concern for these issues and at least a halting attempt to meet them. His opponent, Francis X. Bellotti, has explicitly denied the existence of both problems, while his actions as Lieutenant-Governor have materially aggravated them...
...that the President, in contrast to John Kennedy, will fail to articulate or even broach new issues. They fear that Johnson will be so concerned about being President of all the people that he will ignore the needs of some of the people, that the attainment of a national consensus will require such elaborate compromise as to render further progress impossible...
Indeed, Johnson's obvious vanity about gaining a national consensus and his reluctance to risk engagement with Goldwater in a "great debate" of conflicting philosophies seems to give credence to the belief that he merely wants the warmth of national approval and won't try to convert it into energetic legislation...
Johnson's test, then, will come not so much on November 3 as when he tries to translate his mandate into new legislation--when he must shift from the static consensus that he enjoys now (by standing still he can appeal to a wide range of groups) to a moving consensus where he marks out new areas of advance and must rally others to follow...
...Give me liberty or give me death"; "Lebensraum"; "The world must be made safe for democracy"; "There'll always be an England"; "unconditional surrender"; "the Great Leap Forward"; "We shall overcome." In an increasingly complex society, as Hayakawa points out, such coinages are essential "short cuts to a consensus...