It was a great conventionone of the greatest in U.S. historyand great in a particular way. Not in the level of its oratory, which can be appraised by noting that its best speech was made by Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover. Nor in its platform, which will never be mistaken for resonant prose. Nor in unity.
The 1952 Republican Convention was great in that it fulfilled one of the highest duties of a party (or a man): to make sense. The convention made political, moral and dramatic sense.
Drama & Debate. This generation of Americans tends to view politics as a sordid and...
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