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...Broken Treaties episode was merely the most publicized aspect of a genuine Indian uprising, which has turned the BIA into a shambles. While most Americans were settling down to Thanksgiving turkey, bands of Indians staged protests in Gallup, N.M., at Fort Robinson in Nebraska, and on Mayflower II in Massachusetts, where Indians scaled the rigging, hauled down the Union Jack and burned it on Plymouth Rock. Meanwhile the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco revealed a stunning decision, a ruling that the Government is obliged to perform the same services for urban Indians-nearly one-half...
Confidence. It may be that Nixon would have won no matter whom the Democrats had nominated. Last May, well before the Democratic Convention, the President was riding a 61% vote of confidence in a Gallup poll ?and the figure virtually matched his Election Day mandate. No incumbent President since Hoover, guillotined by the Depression, has ever been defeated. Moreover, Yankelovich believes that the critical moment of the 1972 campaign occurred when the Russians decided to go ahead with the Moscow summit conference even after the President had announced the mining of Haiphong harbor and escalated the bombing. Many Americans...
...excitement on campus over the Farenthold campaign last spring, the political enthusiasm of most student liberals and radicals seems to have waned. Robert Clark, Nixon's state coordinator for universities, gleefully cited a poll which showed Nixon leading 57-40 among the 18-24 year-olds in Texas. "The Gallup all-college poll showed McGovern leading 49-47 nationwide, but we feel we are running much stronger than that in Texas," Clark said. "We feel like we're gonna slaughter McGovern on the campuses...
TIME and again in his campaign speeches, George McGovern tells crowds that "Richard Nixon is hiding the White House, sitting on his Gallup polls, while I am taking my campaign directly to the American people...
More than the youth are uneasy. A Gallup poll of workers of all ages last year showed that 19% were displeased with their jobs, up from 13% in 1969. Observes Psychiatrist Robert Coles: "Working people with whom I have talked make quite clear the ways they feel cornered, trapped, lonely, pushed around at work and confused by a sense of meaninglessness...