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...President Nixon was criticizing the morals of others rather than defending his own, he used to speculate about whether the U.S. had entered a Roman decline, what with so much permissiveness around. The argument is familiar: the church has lost its authority, parents are too soft, and every new Gallup or Harris poll shows a decline in the public's confidence in all institutions. But it is fair to ask: Were things really better when respectability was in flower and authority spoke in plummy, assured tones? Historians, whose occupational peculiarity is to find the past at least as interesting...
...people in the drugstores." What the legislators hear may well determine Nixon's future, for most would agree with Republican National Chairman George Bush that "the momentum for resignation or impeachment will [have to] come from the people." Adds Scott: "Every member of Congress is a walking Gallup poll, and a better one because he has more at stake...
...week. The latest Harris poll was taken in mid-November, before the public learned of the mysterious 18-minute gap on one of the Watergate tape recordings; the survey found that 37% of Americans rated Nixon's performance as "good" or "excellent" -up five points since October. The Gallup poll was conducted between Nov. 30 and Dec. 3, after the tape gap became known; it showed a four-point rise −to 31%−in public approval of Nixon since the alltime low in October and early November...
According to Gallup, most of Nixon's gain in popularity has been...
...Earlier this year the American Cancer Society asked the Gallup organization to poll the attitudes of American women toward breast cancer. The results of the survey of 1,007 women over 18 years old show that women are so terrified of breast cancer-and of the possibility that a breast will have to be removed-that they exaggerate both the prevalence and danger of the disease. Sixty-two percent of those polled, for example, thought that a blow or injury to the breast could cause cancer (false), and 43% believed that birth control pills could lead to malignancies (unsupported...