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Ralph Nader: President
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Ralph Nader's day at DePauw ... included an afternoon student forum, which was moderated by two faculty members (visit a photo gallery), and a news conference with members of the University's student media. In the latter session, Nader said he continues to consider the possibility of entering the presidential race, as he did in 1996, 2000 and 2004.
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Ralph Nader's candidacy is fruitless and irresponsible. Just as much of the ground lost to Reagan in the 1980s has never been regained, the ground to be lost by a Republican presidential victory is likely to stay lost.
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Nader's public career began in the 1960s. By the early 1970s he was a national hero, an extraordinarily active and influential public advocate, who commanded a thousand volunteers working on dozens of issues. He frequently testified before Congress working with mainly Democratic representatives and senators. By the early 1970s he was considered an obvious choice for U.S. Senator. Some observers put him on a short list of potential Democratic presidential candidates. George McGovern asked him to be his vice-presidential candidate.
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The Nader-led activity pumped life into a Washington vacuum, says Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, Nader's largest watchdog group, formed in 1971. "There were no citizen groups in 1965 that lobbied, when he started investigating the automobile industry," she says. "There were government officials and industry representatives and Ralph."
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Nader points out that his campaign does not take corporate or Political Action Committee money contributions: only legally prescribed individual contributions. He declares that he wishes to participate in national presidential debates that are independent, inclusive, and uncorrupted by special interests. He promotes a new debate commision called the Citizen's Debate Commission, noting that their internet address is www.opendebates.org.
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Politicians in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. public were receptive to Nader's ideas. In 1966, in his State of the Union address, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a national highway safety act. Later that year, Congress passed the Highway Safety Act (80 Stat. 731 [23 U.S.C.A. §401 note]) and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (80 Stat. 718 [15 U.S.C.A.
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