Just when progress on important issues seems within reach, he's left the vital center of American politics.

This museum, over the past decade, has become a vital center for art and culture in the county.

"And adventure is at the vital center of the story."

This policy thus destroyed not just jobs but the vital center in job skills.

It is a vital center for agriculture, playing a key role in our country's food supply.

Conviction, not compromise, was what made the vital center possible.

She was the ballast he had wanted, the vital center of a new and better life.

His work is well worth looking at in this season of yearning for the "vital center."

Air power could break a people's will by destroying a country's "vital centers".

Tonight, we proclaim that the vital American center is alive and well.