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...President's efforts to get back to business, Watergate pressures are not likely to subside any time soon. The public remains skeptical about his involvement in the scandal, as the latest Gallup poll indicates. After his nationally televised speech on Watergate on Aug. 15, approval of Nixon's performance as President rose from 31% to 38%, but 58% of the people who viewed the speech said that they were not satisfied with it. The Senate hearings reopen this month, and there are likely to be ample further causes for presidential tension...
...German leather goods, have flowed into England faster than British exports have gone to other EEC members. In the meantime, the Market has not yet acted on programs that would directly benefit Britain, such as investing in its industrially underdeveloped regions. It is no wonder that a recent Gallup poll in Britain revealed that 52% of those queried now feel that their nation erred in joining the Market. London now will likely assume a tougher posture toward its Common Market partners...
...Richard Nixon finally went on television last week to make his first report to the American people in three months, he faced perhaps the toughest audience of his career. A Gallup poll showed that he had become the least popular President in 20 years, with only 31% of the people approving of the way he was handling his job. The Oliver Quayle poll further announced that if the 1972 elections were to be repeated today, Senator George McGovern (who received only 38% of the popular vote) would win with 51%. The only comfort the polls held for the President...
...week's end, the Gallup poll reported that, of the unusually large number of Americans who had watched the address, 44% found it "not at all" convincing, while 15% concluded that it was "completely" convincing, and the rest were scattered in between. In response to other questions, 66% said that the speech had not increased their confidence in the Nixon Administration, 56% believed that Nixon should turn over the presidential tapes, and 58% disagreed with his assertion that civil rights and antiwar protests helped create the atmosphere that led to Watergate...
Last year Nixon, still possessing only 4 letters, went up against McGovern (5). Was it the Gallup Polls that scared Nixon about the election of '72, or was it his name? Why did Nixon feel he had to tap phones, infiltrate opponents' campaigns, and manufacture phony newsletters? What was he so afraid of? Could it be that he understood mathematical history--and tried desperately to get around...