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Editorials
November 27, 1967 issue

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The widespread notion that the American electorate is under some mysterious compulsion to choose from among the various possible nominees put forward by the two major parties should be sharply challenged, it has long been assumed that the press, the politicians and the pollsters enter the horses in the race, and that the only function of the voters is to back their favorites. On November 7, 1967, Republican Thomas B. Curtis unburdened himself of some sour thoughts on the Vietnamese War, pointing out that the eighty-month stretch of economic boom has been fueled by a costly and bloody war, and that the expansion is now slowing despite a million new jobs opened up by the war and an increase of 700,000 in the armed forces.

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ELECTIONS -- United States; POLITICIANS; POLITICAL parties -- United States; CURTIS, Thomas B.; VIETNAM War, 1961-1975; WAR -- Economic aspects; ARMED Forces; UNITED States
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