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Republicans on the Run Editor's Column December 1984 Volume XX, No.6 Price $ 1.50 ~\- Republicans On The Run Editor's Column One of the first orders of business for RepUblicans on Capitol Hillfollowing the 1984 election was the selection of new Senate leaders. For moderates and progressives, the news was encouraging. Bob D ole was elected majon'ty leader. RIPON fORtJM John Heinz again heads the National Republican Senaton'al Commillee; John Chcifee is in charge ofth e Senate Republi­ can Conference; B ob Packwood is chairman of the Senate Editor's Column 2 Finance Commillee; a nd John Danforth is in charge of the Pronlu and Perspectivu: 3 Senate Commerce Commillee, They join other moderates A Conversation with andprogressives, such as Pete Domenici and M ark Haifield, Donald Shriver in key leadership positions. Our cover design points out that some moderates might, in A P~serlptlon (or Pro&resslves: 7 Dale Curt!, fact, seek the presidency in 1988. Ofcourse, it is too early, if not plain wrong, to start sen'ously hypothesizing about 1988. Editorial: LooklnaBeyond 1984 Yet it isn't too earlyfor GOP moderates and progressives to • begin organizing andfocusing on specific goals. This is the Toward A PrOltenive 12 Repubtlean Alenda: theme of several articles in this edilion oflhe Forum. Dale David L. S.lI acb CUrlis outlines several obstacles thaI must be overcome, but he also claims thatfivefavorable trends existfor moderates Proafuslve Republicans: IS and progressives, David Sallachpresenls theftrst in a sen'es Head Soutb and Go Wu t: William P. McKenzie ofprogressive R epublican "agendas, "focusing pn'man'ly on U. S. responsibilities abroad. 1n an article by this writer, The Painful Cli mb to 19 Ripon Republicans are urged to look to the South and West Womeo'. Equali ty - Clrea 1984: fornewsupporters. Each article carries with it Ih e thesis that Ta nya Mellch now is the timefor Republicans dissatisfied wilh the party's Reader Prome 20 rightward tilt to act wilh vision and boldness, a cry which has been heard before, but now with substantial power in the The Chairman's Corner: 21 Senate, could become a reality. The Le,lcy of Dietrich Bonbodfer: - Bill McKenzie Jim lAach 6 Library Court 23 STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP. MANAGE MENT AND C IRCULATION, I . Title ofPublicauon, Ripon Forum. 2. DateofFiling: October 1 5.1984. 3. F~qu e ncy Wuhliliton Notes and QUOIn 24 of Is sue: Bi-Monthly. A. No. ofi.sue. published annually; 6. B. Annual Subscription Price: S IS. 4. 1.o<;.tion of Known Office of PublicatiQn: 6 Ubr. !)' Court, S.E., Washington. DC 20003. 5. 1.o<;ltion of 1M Headquarters orGenerl. Business Offices of the Publishers:6 Ubral)'Coort, S. E., Wuhington, DC 20003.6. Name andAddreu <>fthe Publisher: The Ripon 5o<:iety Inoorp<:>Tated. 6 LibraI)' Coort, S.E.• Wlshin&lOn. DC 20003. Name and Address of Editor: William P. McKenzie. 6 Ubrary C()Urt, S.E., Washington, DC 20003. 7. Owner: The Ripon 5o<:iety, Inc., 6 Ubnlry C()Urt, S.E .• Washin&ton. DC 20003 . 8. Kn<>wn OOndholders. mortpgees, II\d other security holders ownin, or holdin. one percent Or more ohmll ' mQUnt of oonds. mortgagu ()I' RIPON FOR\JM other securitie&: none. Editor. William P. McKenzie 10. E~tent and Nature Ave"ge No. of Copies Actual No. or Copies of Editorial Board: Daniel J. Swillinger Jayne A Hart of Circulation Each b . ue Durin, Single Issue Published Sandra Thompson Gem e. Meyer Precedin& 12 Months N e l~st to Filin& Date Alfred W. Tate Dale Curtis Total No. of Art Director. elizabeth Lee (The Graphic Tuna) "- Copies Printed 2700 '000 Cover. Robert Carley B. Paid Circulation I. Sales Through THE RIPON FORUM (lSSN 0035-5526) is published b~monthly In 1984. Dcalers I nd Carriera. Street In the publication, the Society hopes to provide a lorum lor Iresh ideas. 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Kellogg, pre sid en~ is a Republican " '" News Agen ts 0 0 resean;h and policy organization whose members are bUSiness, academic, G. Tm. 2700 and professional men and women. II Is headquartered In Washington, '000 D.C, with Netional Associate members throl'ghoul the United States. 1 cemfy thlt the Statements made by me above are CQn'Cct and oomplete: WiUiam P. The Society is supported by chapter dues. individual contributions, and McKenzie.". revenues Irom its publications. 2 RIPON FORUM Profiles and Perspectives The Soviets are hugely conscious of human life which they paid in that war. At least20 million of their people were killed. Profiles and Perspectives In fact, we visited a cemetery outside Leningrad, where, from Profiles and Perspectives that city alone, the bodies of almost 700,000 people were buried. That'sjust about the number of human beings that the Profiles and Perspectives United States has lost in all its wars throughout its history. But the Leningrad toll was less than five percent of the people Profiles and Perspectives the Soviets lost in this one war. " ... We must now begin to imagine a war that can only be imagined and never fought. This is the nuclear dilemma• .. When Soviets therefore talk about the fear of mass destruc­ A tion and nuclear war, they already have created a work-up version of this destruction, as far as they can imagine. We Conversation should not discount this, because, among other things, it helps with explain much of the paranoia and nervousness of Soviet Donald policy concerning Western threats. They seem to be more aware of the deep threat to their national security created by Shriver our missiles pointed towards them than we do about theirs pointed towards us. " ... one of the things we have to learnfrom history is the experience ofthe people at the bottom ofan y society is always diJ!erentfrom Imagination in political affairs is an essential ingredient. people at the top. " especiall y for resolving those conflicts that dominate today's headlines. This includes the relationship between the globe's two superpowers and the chronic problems facing Central Ripon Forum: Imagination seems to be in short supply in America. But imagination, which can be best defined as global relations. In a 1983 sennon you addressed this subject having the ability to comprehend the needs ofothers. has been by quoting the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and a scarcity oflate. Senator Mark Hatfield spoke recently about its pastoral letter on nuclear arms. " To believe we are con­ this to a Ripon gathering, and claimed that if we are to resolve demned in the future only to what has been the past of U.S.­ complex problems, then we must learn to live with "textured Soviet relations," the bishops's letter stated, " is to under­ shades of gray." The inabili ty to do such, and thus to imagine, estimate both our human potential for creative diplomacy and has been compounded by the fact that some religious leaders God's action in our midst which can open up the way to on the right have preached that only black and white exist. To changes we could barely imagine." Yet one of Union Semi­ get the perspective of another religious leader, one who is not nary's most illustrious theologians, Reinhold Niebuhr, a man in agreement with such sentiments, we have turned to Donald who had great impact on American foreign policy during the Shriver, president of New York's Union Theological Seminary. 1950s, promoted a thesis which seems to have a different In his remarks to Forum editor Bill McKenzie, Shriver, the twist. Niebuhr argued that while men are redeemable - author of Is There Hope /or the City? and Rich Man/Poor capable of love and harmony - nations are primarily moti­ Man: Ethical Issues in American Economic Life, makes it vated by the will-to-power. Individuals can act creatively, but clear that imagination still has an essential role to play in nations most often act out of self-interest. If this is true, how global affairs, and that whi le the relationship between religion can imagination, a relatively passive force, be exercised in and politics has come under intense scrutiny recently, each global relations? stands to gain from the other. Shriver. In Th e Irony 0/ American History, written in the 1950s before McCarthyism and the Cold War, Niebuhr had Ripon Forum: Since you just returned from a trip to the the imagination to know that nuclear war was an intolerable Soviet Union, could you please give us your impression of possibility fo r the future of relations between nations. Several current Soviet attitudes towards world peace? places in that book, he underscores the fact that a humane Shriver. While much of our time was spent on matters ec­ society would not be possible after such a war.
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