Standing hatless under a hot Southern sun last week, Vice President Nixon could wonder whether his brains had been fried to the point of sunstroke. There he stood in the heart of the solid South, in downtown Atlanta's Hurt Park, while a cheering crowd of 45,000 stretched to the eye's limit. There beside him stood Atlanta's grey-thatched Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Democratic to the core but proclaiming the need for a Southern two-party system because "we want to be part of the main stream of American life." Following the mayor came Georgia...
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