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Mainly because of the conscientious and dignified conduct of the House Judiciary Committee in its televised impeachment hearings, public approval of Congress climbed from 30% last April to 48% in August, according to a Gallup poll released last week. Overall, however, the Congress has not yet fully earned such a rise in confidence stemming from its handling of the Watergate scandal. It has yet to enact a single bill that would make future Watergate-type abuses of presidential authority and political campaigns less likely to occur...
Even the word depression is appearing in discussion for the first time in decades. The Economist, a London weekly noted for judicious, unhysterical appraisals, predicts that the years 1974 to 1976 will probably be remembered as years of depression. In the U.S., a Gallup poll published last month found that 46% of adults feared a depression similar to the classic one of the 1930s. Oddly, such apprehension was more prominent among younger people, who have no personal memories of the disaster of 40 years ago, than among the middleaged...
...counter the women's auxiliary of the F & G C, which insists that American women are "oppressed, indeed enslaved," Wallenberg brings on his secondary weapon, the opinion polls. From the findings of Gallup, Harris and others, he concludes that "American women don't believe they are living in a rotten, corrupt sexist society that has crushed them. They are, in fact, more satisfied than men." Similarly, polls show that the majority of Americans are middle class "because they think they are middle class, and they think they are middle class because they fit the criteria that they themselves...
...President's highest point of popularity, 68% in the Gallup poll, was last reached after the Viet Nam peace settlement in January 1973. Fourteen months later, in the wreckage of Watergate, the number of Americans who thought the President was doing a good job had dropped to 25%, and there it has hovered ever since. Can many in this 25% even be following the news...
...Gallup poll taken two weeks ago, after his Middle East tour, showed that his approval rating in the nation stood at 26% - two percentage points lower than in the most recent poll a month earlier and only one point above his all-time low last April...