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Though Nixon's campaign might stem his slide in public approval, it could hardly raise him significantly from his recent lows. Two polls taken just before he launched his public appearances showed that he was still slipping in esteem. Gallup recorded a two-point drop in the public's approval of Nixon's performance, to a new low of 25%, while Harris reported a three-point slide in its rating, to 26%. Even the President's support among political conservatives appeared to be fading (see story page 15). Conservative Columnist George F. Will wrote that...
...have made him seem to many a vital national resource who has opened relations with China, soothed the way for détente with the Soviet Union and shuttled to a cease-fire in Viet Nam and the Middle East. Thus it was no surprise when the most recent Gallup poll asking Americans to name the man in the world they most admired came out with Kissinger in first place, beating out President Nixon, who had topped the list for the previous four years. But admiration can never be translated to elective eminence for Kissinger because Article II, Section...
...just a matter of fighting it out on "this line" -if it took all summer. Franklin Roosevelt suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. Lyndon Johnson ran into Lincoln's sympathetic ghost stalking the White House every time L.B.J.'s popularity dropped in the Gallup poll...
...people. He also serves as a special White House emissary to a hostile Congress. For the first time in history, a President needs his Vice President more than, well, vice versa. Ford recognizes the pitfalls and anomalies of this situation, not the least of which is a Gallup poll finding that Americans, by a margin of 46% to 32%, would like him to finish out Richard Nixon's term. For the good of both the party and himself, Ford must back up the man who selected him-yet he cannot become his puppet. Last month he made the mistake...
...capacity. Oil imports are dropping steadily, reports the FEO: from 5 million bbl. a day two weeks ago to 4.9 million bbl. last week. Compounding an already bad situation, most drivers still seem unwilling to form car pools or switch to alternative forms of transit. In a Gallup poll last week, 79% of those interviewed said that they used autos to go to work-exactly the same proportion...