The Nation: St. Gene the Baptist

From its Washington headquarters, the newly formed Committee for a Constitutional Presidency will fan out across the country in the coming year, educating the nation about how Presidents are chosen and how the office of the presidency has lately been abused. Then in 1976, if the climate seems auspicious, the committee may nominate its own candidate for President and petition to get his name on state ballots. So goes the ambitious scenario, and there is no doubt about who that candidate would be: none other than the C.C.P.'s creator and honorary chairman, the former Senator, sometime editor, professor...

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