September 1968 Issue [The Easy Chair] Open letter to the next president Download PDF Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 1963-1969 20th century Administrative agencies Bureaucracy Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) Johnson Politics and government Presidents Reorganization United States More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share