In one of his most eloquent statements, William Scranton last spring warned that the inability of his party to speak with one voice had made it appear as a negative force in U.S. life. Declared he: "All of that can change. Republicans should form a new coalitionwith themselves."
Few Republicans would agree more heartily with that sentiment than Melvin Laird, a bright, balding Congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the 1964 Republican Platform Committee and a man who means to write a document acceptable to all G.O.P. factions. Says Laird: "We're not writing a Goldwater...