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6 Calhoun in 1804 and Taft in 1878 graduated into a world very different from the one which faces you. They and their contemporaries spent entire careers in grappling with a few dramatic issues on which the nation was sharply divided -- issues that often occupied attention for a generation at a time: the National Bank, the disposal of the public lands, nullification or union, freedom or slavery, gold or silver. Today these old sweeping issues have largely disappeared. The central domestic problems of our own time are more subtle and less simple. They relate, not to basic clashes of philosophy or ideology,

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