Despite the fact that I have no legal right to intervene in the affairs of the Fund for the Republic, I have exercised my right as a private citizen to question the manner in which the Fund has attempted to achieve its stated objectives. Some of its actions, I feel, have been dubious in character and inevitably have led to charges of poor judgment. What effect my comments may have remains to be seen. I am satisfied, however, that no public trust can expect to fulfill its responsibilities if it does not respond to intelligent and constructive public criticism.
The Polls: A Confidence Game The great political confidence game is on again the nomination of Presidential candidates by public polls. Ever since an upsurge of manipulated public opinion forced Wendell Willkie on a rather unwilling Republican Convention in 1940, Madison Avenue gets purposefully restless on the eve of every Presidential year. And in 1952, those pre-convention public polls, more than anything else, annihilated Senator Taft’s excellent chances to receive the Republican nomination that was his due.
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