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I hesitate to divert attention from the Big Tent where Richard Nixon is demonstrating his qualifications for the Presidency: where the Butcher of Budapest is transformed into “a born leader of men” and is asked to be our honored guest; where the Twentieth Party Congress “peace” line is certified as genuine; where the “concept of coexistence” is finally rejected – in favor of “one world”; where a Western diplomatic capitulation is accomplished (“no guarantee of West Berlin, no Summit,” someone said) with everyone’s apparent approval.

But on the theory that Nixon’s dark deeds may, somehow, be countered by an equally cataclysmic turn in Communism’s fortunes, one must regard our domestic affairs as still relevant. Congress is still there, and Congress is about to pass a law that will hammer an important nail – maybe the decisive one – in the coffin of States’ Rights.

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L. Brent Bozell Jr.

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I hesitate to divert attention from the Big Tent where Richard Nixon is demonstrating his qualifications for the Presidency: where the Butcher of Budapest is transformed into “a born leader of men” and is asked to be our honored guest; where the Twentieth Party Congress “peace” line is certified as genuine; where the “concept of coexistence” is finally rejected – in favor of “one world”; where a Western diplomatic capitulation is accomplished (“no guarantee of West Berlin, no Summit,” someone said) with everyone’s apparent approval.

But on the theory that Nixon’s dark deeds may, somehow, be countered by an equally cataclysmic turn in Communism’s fortunes, one must regard our domestic affairs as still relevant. Congress is still there, and Congress is about to pass a law that will hammer an important nail – maybe the decisive one – in the coffin of States’ Rights.