The Presidency: That's Quite a Platform

THE PRESIDENCY

The Republicans may, and probably will have a furious fight over their plat form. But there is no doubt about what the Democrats' will be: President Lyndon Johnson standing foursquare for all things for all men.

Unity. As commencement speaker at the University of Texas, he was, for one thing, the Great Moderator. Said he: "It is one of the great tasks of political leadership to make our people aware that they share a fundamental unity of interest, purpose and belief. On the ba sis of this unity, I intend to try...

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