156 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

for unbroken continuity. These principles together create free-
dom, a freedom built not on the quicksand of adolescent defiance
but on the bedrock of ethics and law.

I believe that Republicans at both ends of our party's spectrum
share this sentiment. This is the common point at which the streams
of liberal and conservative Republicanism merge, creating the main-
stream which allows a Mark Hatfield from Oregon, a Chuck Percy from
Illinois and an Edward Brooke from Massachusetts to join with estab-
lished leaders like Kuchel of California. Javits of New York and Mor-
ton of Kentucky in the Senate of the United States.

In identifying Republican conservatism with a twentieth century
America, let us not, while so doing, demand unconditional surrender
from the Liberal Establishment or exclude them from the cause of sav-
ing America from suffocating mediocrity. Indeed, we must welcome
them to our ranks with the thought that blending originality with
practicality, new ideas with firm ideals, will strengthen and not destroy
us. If our goal is to "find the best answer to each problem as it arises
without fixed regard for previous practises and theories, " as Yale's
David Potter insists it should be, then we must certainly consult and
enlist the intellectualism presiding in great numbers within the liberal
community if our search is sincerely for the best answer and not simply
for the one bearing our label.

With conservatism made timely and Republicanism extended to in-
clude men of books and letters, who were for so long looked upon with
suspicion by certain elements within our party, we may now set about
selling our case, and with it a new image, to the American public.

But first we must do some unselling. We must lay to permanent rest
the notion that our party is partner to special privilege, wealth and
parochialism. We must unsell the idea that we are more concerned
with the public ledgers than we are with the public good. We must
correct the impression that we regard big government as at all times
bad, or massive spending as in every instance evil. We must refuse to
tolerate the role of a minority party, the yesterday party, the protest
party, the white Anglo-Saxon party, the rural America party, the
standpat party.

Once we are cleansed of undeserving images we may set about puri-
fying American society. And the very first thing we must do is to
make a sacred covenant with the people that we will tell the truth,
the whole truth and at all times, the truth. Never before in our history
has leadership had its credibility so seriously questioned or its integrity