National Affairs: Who's a Liberal?

In Washington's Willard Hotel 511 rapt students from 36 states plunked down their $12 tuition fees. In return they received an intensive four-day course in "practical politics" from the faculty of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. They were also handed some conflicting clues in the search for a liberal political party.

¶ Said Oregon's Republican Senator Wayne Morse: not the Democrats. "A friend told me not long ago that the Democratic Party was the party of great liberal Presidents. He named Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Roosevelt—and then he stopped short . . . I pointed out that they're all dead."

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