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...become increasingly evident that he could not get Congress to approve a quick tax cut; among those opposing any such move were both Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Harry Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. And early in August a Gallup poll reported that 72% of the voters opposed immediate tax reduction if it meant that the Government would go deeper into debt. At that point Kennedy found himself in the position of a business executive who 1) drafts a memo arguing that his company should open additional sales offices, 2) overhears...
...presumably a politician's easy way to popularity. But though President Kennedy is eager to achieve one, a Gallup poll last week showed 72% of the people opposed. At his press conference, Kennedy wanted to rewrite the pollsters' question: Wouldn't people be for a tax cut if it would put off a recession? Such advanced economics has not got across to the body politic, which seems to think that if the Government spends a lot of money, it ought to pay its debts...
Shortly after President Kennedy's eloquent inaugural, the Gallup poll found that 69% of the U.S. liked the way he was beginning his new job. His popularity soared to a high of 83* in the rally-roundthe-flag spirit that immediately followed the Bay of Pigs fiasco that April, sagged to 71 by July, climbed again in the atmosphere of crisis over Berlin to a second peak of 79 last March. But since Kennedy's celebrated tangle with Big Steel and the Blue Monday that followed, his popularity has slipped. The latest Gallup poll found him back where...
Oddly enough, a Gallup poll reported last week that the great majority (74%) of those questioned approved of Macmillan's infusion of youth into the Cabinet. Yet an increasing number of Britons also felt that the 68-year-old Prime Minister should have added his own name to the list of ministers fired for "tiredness." The new Cabinet, cracked the Sunday Telegraph, "is, so to speak, the New Frontier-under Eisenhower." In just nine days, the number of those who professed dissatisfaction with Macmillan himself had risen from 39% to 52%. Only once before in Britain had a Gallup...
...examination was conducted with Gallic thoroughness. Editor Max led off by consulting his old friend and former employer, Dr. George Gallup, director of Princeton's American Institute of Public Opinion, deployed a journalistic crew of seven in accordance with Gallup's advice. All told, Réalités' writers asked 25,000 questions in more than 3,000 interviews. On the Eastern seaboard, Reporter Pierre Marchant spent two weeks talking to 60 U.S. educators, business executives, politicians and clergymen. He posed to them all the single leading, loaded question: "Is there anything about the U.S. that...