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Mother's Mikes. If the President is dismayed by the psephologists (only 46% of the people approve of him, according to last week's Gallup poll), he showed not a trace of it at his press conference, one of the most successful in his 1,051 days in office. There was none of the stagy cuteness he used in announcing three major appointments in the State Department last month, none of the petulance that too often has marred his press relations. Even "Mother," the President's awesome electronic lectern, was stripped of some of its gadgetry...
Underriding. Increasingly, the pollsters are finding evidence that the nation once again is at least beginning to turn its back. Last week's Gallup poll reported massive "resistance of whites to measures for improving the lot of Negroes," noted that 52% of them think the Administration is pushing integration "too fast"-as against only 32% when the first survey was conducted in 1962. Pollster Lou Harris warned that "the white backlash could be the decisive issue on Nov. 8" and could "tear the Democratic Party apart at the seams in the North...
...then with Secretary of Defense McNamara's now-famous speech in Montreal, the country was made aware of a desire to change not only the specific form of the draft but also the concept of national service. The extent of public discontent was revealed in early July when a Gallup Poll was released showing only 43 per cent of the American people thought the current draft system "fair" -- the lowest percentage ever registered during a war period. At the same time pollsters found that parents favored, 4 to 1, a plan calling on all 18-year-old men to serve...
...presidential limousines so that he can drink in the applause of the populace as he drives by. He may soon need an amplifier. The Louis Harris poll reported last week that only 50% of the American public now endorses the President v. 83% in February 1964; the Gallup poll shows an 8% decline, from 56% to 48%, in two months...
Most galling of all to the Administration was last month's nationwide Gallup poll. In February, Lyndon led Bobby by a comfortable 2 to 1 among Democrats. Six months later, the Democratic ratings were 40% for Bobby to 38% for Lyndon, and 38% to 24% among independents-a result that prompted Gadfly Bill Buckley's crack that the Kennedy clan must have purchased the Gallup poll...