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Democracy's most important right: to vote / Leonard H. Goldenson -- Political action committees: a threat to democratic government / Fred Wertheimer -- A case for the Democrats, 1984: a tale of two cities / Mario M. Cuomo -- Second inaugural address / Ronald W. Reagan -- How fares the first amendment? / Franklyn S. Haiman -- Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court / William H. Rehnquist -- A plea for corporate responsibility / Miles W. Lord -- A "notion" at risk: the greater crisis in American education / Jeffrey R. Holland -- Hope, vision, and dedication: the future of American education / Ernest L. Boyer -- The humanities and the defense of a free society / Sidney Hook -- Redefining our problems with the Soviet Union / Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- Terrorism and the modern world / George P. Shultz -- Days of remembrance / Elie Wiesel -- Harry S. Truman / Alan Wheat -- The remarkable man from Missouri: Harry S. Truman / Margaret Truman Daniel -- Eleanor Roosevelt / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- The fact of poverty today: a challenge for the church / Joseph Cardinal Bernardin -- The new migration / Franklin A. Thomas -- Does TV have the courage to pioneer a new commercial ethic? / Norman Lear -- Rekindling the commitment to civic responsibility / Charles S. Robb.