Ripon Forum


Vol. 8, No. 1

January 1972

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Why Nixon Needs Brooke

In September, Senator Edmund S. Muskie, speaking in seeming disregard of his political interests, said that a black running mate would harm the cause of civil rights and of his own electoral success. This statement was generally accepted as an honest recognition of the political facts of life both by black leaders, including Charles Evers of […]