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...Gallup says, the majority of Americans believe the President culpable but overwhelmingly oppose impeachment [July 23], that is a sad commentary on the complexity of modern life...
Like the Americans, the Japanese are discovering that success does not necessarily make them popular. In Britain, a Gallup poll shows that 37% of those questioned regard Japan as "an unfriendly country." On the cover of Vision, a European business monthly, the Japanese businessman was depicted as a belligerent, muscle-flexing superman. German executives do not like it that Japanese salaries are generally 10% to 30% higher than their own. The Japanese politely retort that their success is merited because they work harder to sell to Europeans than Europeans do to sell to them...
Richard Nixon in effect was telling the court of public opinion: Trust me. It was not the best moment for such an appeal. A Gallup poll showed that 24% of those surveyed believe that the President should be forced from office-a rise from 18% only two weeks before. That is a remarkable figure in a nation where only one President has ever been impeached (without being convicted)-a nation that has increasingly come to rely on and even revere the presidency. At the same time, according to Gallup, three out of four Americans now believe Nixon had some part...
This week George Gallup reported that only 39.6% of the public approve of the way Nixon is handling the presidency; this is the lowest popularity rating of Nixon's tenure in the White House and one of the lowest for any postwar President (see chart page...
...nation's emotions about Richard Nixon and Watergate are almost as complex and contradictory as the testimony in the Senate. In a Gallup poll taken in the wake of John Dean's devastating appearance, fully 71% believe that the President was involved in either the planning or the cover-up of the Watergate breakin. If Nixon was indeed involved, then he is guilty of criminal acts that would presumably be grounds for impeachment. Yet the same survey showed that only 18% think Nixon "should be compelled to leave office...