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Program 484: Electoral Reform: What Happens When Everyone Loses?

A discussion of proposed reforms to the system of national elections in the wake of the 1968 presidential election, when it seemed that the results would turn on the Electoral College rather than a clear victory in the popular vote. Featuring Harry S. Ashmore, Blair Clark, Walter De Vrie, Charles Guggenheim, Herbert Kaplow, Frank Mankiewicz, Steve Mitchell, Joe Napolitan, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Eli Siegel, and Ann Wexler. Dec. 19, 1968. [CSDI program number 484; UCSB tape numbers A8076/R7, A8077/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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