During the summer of 1992, I vividly recall, an open letter to the Democratic Party was published in a number of leading newspapers (I probably read it in the Washington Post). The letter begged the Party, which was then meeting in the convention that would nominate Bill Clinton, not to foreclose the pro-life position altogether, instead permitting at least one or two pro-life Democrats to address the gathering. The Party ignored the open letter, permitting only pro-choice speakers to mount the podium, but the open letter struck me as significant even so, in part because one of the signatories was Sargent Shriver, the Democratic vice presidential candidate just two decades earlier.

I’ve searched high and low for a copy of this letter, without success. Is there a reader of this happy Corner who can lay hands on it?