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...radicals who.don't care what happens to the U.S." In October, the public rejected this statement 49% to 37%, but now it accepts it by a narrow plurality of 44% to 42%. There is, however, no massive rallying behind Vice President Spiro Agnew's charges against the Eastern press and television networks. Only 39% go along with the Agnew attacks, while 29% are unable to make any judgment on them...
Though the public does not agree with Agnew's overall attacks on TV and the press, it is highly critical of the news media for their part in reporting the My Lai incident. Sixty-seven percent of those polled believe that the press and TV should not have reported statements by soldiers involved prior to a trial. Americans show considerable sympathy for Lieut. William Galley, the platoon leader charged with over 100 of the deaths at My Lai. By a margin of 55% to 23%, they believe that Calley is being made a scapegoat by the Government...
...Vice President will then make stops in Afghanistan, Malaysia and Singapore, finally coming to rest for a few days at a plush beach hotel in Bali. Revived by dips in the Indian Ocean, a set or two of tennis and perhaps a few rounds of golf-Agnew packed his clubs, rackets and bathing trunks-the Vice President will fly the final leg of his journey, stopping in Australia and New Zealand and returning to Washington in mid-January...
Frye is everywhere on TV these days, but nowhere is his extensive range of characters more fully revealed than in his first record album, I Am the President. The album has all those old political favorites plus Spiro Agnew, David Susskind and Henry Fonda, all right on target. Nixon's singsong baritone is so close to the mark, it makes one hope Frye never gets near the hot line. L.B.J.'s drawl reeks of chili down on the Pedernales, while Nelson Rockefeller's gravelly voice sounds as if he had taken a speech-improvement course and swallowed...
...album has any shortcoming it lies in Spiro Agnew, and that suffers mostly by comparison. Frye is so dead-on with other politicos they become frighteningly real. Spiro, meanwhile, comes off as a slapstick caricature, a fey idiot who can't tell time...