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THE GREAT FRONTIER Walter Prescott Webb ….$ 6.00 $ 4.80 , \(o THREE FRIENDS: BEDICHEK, DOBIE, WEBB William A. Owens Peter Matthiessen : , , HE SECILIN6 OF THE PRESIDENT 1968 Joe McGinnis AND OTHER DIRTY STORIES Larry L. King $ 5.50 $ 6.95 $ 5.56 $ 5.95 $ 4.76 x.; ROBERT KENNEDY: A MEMOIR Jack Newfield $ 6.95 $ 5.56 THE EMERGING REPUBLICAN’ MINORITY Kevin P. Phillips $ 7.95 $ 6.36 THE MAKING OF A COUNTER CULTURE Theodore Roszak tA’CY rn ‘ Theodore Sorensen $ 6.95 $ 5.56 ST CE: THE CRISIS OF LAW, ORDER AND FREEDOM IN AMERICA Richard Harris $ 6.95 $ 5.56 $ 5.95 $ 4.76 $ 4.50 $ 3.60 THE BEST OF BRANN: THE ICONOCLAST $ 6.95 $ 5.56 N HIS OWN: RFK 1964-68 Vanden Heuvel & Gwirtzm an —0,-.-;’.–, ‘ %.-4.w. ,;= V.-. .,’$.1. k $,:k* ,> q i s. 4M ‘ , .t…:4″?… ft; :igff: ,,,s,.;’,:: .,,,S,,,..,.,:, , ”.. ,;.., , … V.V..::*’: >…,..>, ‘ THE GREAT FRONTIER Walter Prescott Webb ….$ 6.00 $ 4.80 THE TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON Eric F. Goldman $ 8.95 $ 7.16 -1111.4. 1,41W ..1/ pl 44\( NORTH TOWARD Willie Morris $ 5.95 $ 4.76 JFK AND LBJ Tom Wicker THE TEXANS: WHAT THEY ARE-AND WHY David Nevin DARK STAR: HIROSHIMA RECONSIDERED IN THE LIFE OF CLAUDE EATHERLY Ronnie Dugger $ 5.95 $ 4.76 MY BROTHER LYNDON Sam Houston Johnson …$ 6.95 Optional membership in the discount plan, at $5.00 for one year, entitles readers to order the above books or Any hardbound book in print \(except text, discount applies to all book purchases made during the 12 months of membership. If possible please enclose payment, including, for Texas residents, the 434% sales tax, with your order. Books are sent postpaid. A 25c service charge is added only to those orders not accompanied by payment. THE TEXAS OBSERVER BOOKSTORE 301 VEST 2-1111, 1USTIN. ‘FE\\ kS 711703 18 The Texas Observer major voice in public affairs. In doing so, Senator Yarborough, you have followed in the footsteps of Gene McCarthy, who rallied us to his support in 1968. We worked for him before and after the fiasco at Chicago, but then, as we were waiting to see if he would become a fourth candidate at the election, he endorsed Hubert Humphrey. One threat, however, lurks about us, whether we support Republican or Democratic parties, conservative or liberal politicians. Even if liberals are a minority in this country, they are a substantial minority. As long as their leaders in the democratic process fall short of their and our ideals by admitting defeat before the battle is over, we run the risk of anarchy as the result of popular frustration. Ironically the conservative financial barons and the supporters of the status quo are doing more than anyone else to foster the growth of real communism in the United States. If the liberals and the blacks and other minorities continue to lose their leaders in Congress and the Senate, they will have only the streets as their political forum, and only the radicals of the extreme left to guide them. What, then, is the answer? Let me put the problem this way. We plead to you in the streets because we have no real voice in the high councils of this land, because we love America and hate to see it on what we believe is a path to ruin. We want men whom we can vote for without shame, whether they win or lose, because we believe that we would have a chance of victory if all candidates could come before people as financial equals. You cannot put down dissent with rifles and bayonets. Remember the American Revolution; the more violent the British forces became, the more widespread was the resistance. We must have men who will represent us in our Congress and in the Senate, men who are prepared to be independent of party if necessary, or to form their own, aided by the many who will flock to them and work for them as they worked for Gene McCarthy in 1968. Let the power return to the people and not be bought by armchair politicians who campaign from television studios and country clubs. You must run as an independent candidate in . November, Senator Yarborough. You owe this much to us and to yourself. For we can win. “What about the Democratic party?” you may ask. It is more likely to lose if you don’t run for office than if you do, for many of those votes which went for you, in admiration, in the primary, will go for Bush in November, out of frustration. “Write-in candidates don’t win,” you may say. Let us say rather, “They have not won!” Frederick M. Ahl, assistant professor, Department of Classics, The University of Texas at Austin.