Who's a Liberal?

In Washington's Willard Hotel 511 rapt students from 36 states plunked down their $12 tuition fees. In return they received an intensive four-day course in "practical politics" from the faculty of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. They were also handed some conflicting clues in the search for a liberal political party.

P: Said Oregon's Republican Senator Wayne Morse: not the Democrats. "A friend told me not long ago that the Democratic Party was the party of great liberal Presidents. He named Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson and Roosevelt--and then he stopped short . . . I pointed out that they're all dead."

P: Said Democrat Henry Wallace: not the Republicans. "The power of the Republican Party rests in certain very large forces that just don't believe in progressiveness--never have and never will."

P: Said N.C.P.A.C.'s Executive Vice Chairman C. B. ("Beany") Baldwin: a plague on both houses. Republicans are "still controlled by the vested interests. . . . If the Democratic Party continues on the road to reaction as it has in the past 18 months, there will be a third party."

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