Nation: What's Wrong with Us?

Almost every Republican has some sort of explanation for the party's 1964 disaster and some sort of remedy for the future. Among the more provocative commentators is former G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall of New York, who aired his ideas last week in an article for the Long Island newspaper Newsday. Excerpts:

We have permitted our party to become too exclusive. We have been trying to elect national candidates with the descendants of the people who came over on the Mayflower, and that boat just wasn't big enough. The answers can be found in...

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