Sakharov’s Contribution
Your editorial “Conscience of the Nation” (Dec. 16) on Sakharov set me to searching my memory banks for an equivalent figure in this country. The name of another physicist, Albert Einstein, came to mind at once but he was more the conscience of the entire world than of any single nation.
In the past hour I have reviewed many names of people who have been of influence in the past 50 years and have remembered none of who might be called “the Conscience of the United States.” Can it be we have never had a conscience?
A.S. NOVAKOW
Pico Rivera
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