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...public opinion opposes federal aid to Roman Catholic schools more sharply now than it did a dozen years ago says the Gallup poll. In 1949, when a House bill for aiding public schools made aid for parochial schools a public issue. Gallup asked: "Should this money go entirely to public schools, or should part of it go to parochial schools?'' The results...
Kennedy's first four weeks have won him a disconcerting kind of popular respect. Gallup polls, whatever their worth, show him about as popular as Eisenhower after his first month in office. And, polls aside, one senses that the new President has won many who voted against him in November. Respect, though, is not support. Kennedy may be liked, but most people do not favor his programs. He is in danger of acquiring the same kind of deadly popular favor that Eisenhower had, and people are beginning to feel reassured that he will not change things much...
...month after John F. Kennedy entered the White House, he had won a solid vote of approval from nearly three-quarters of the electorate. "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Kennedy is handling his job as President?" asked the Gallup poll. The results...
...endless soup kitchen. But there is enough know-how and enough knowledgeable people to help those nations help themselves." Skeptics at once envisioned ponytailed coeds and crew-cut Jack Armstrongs playing Albert Schweitzer-an appalling army of innocents abroad. Nonetheless, Kennedy was flooded with enthusiastic letters. In a Gallup poll, 71% of Americans backed the corps; 66% wanted their sons to join...
...first Gallup poll of President Kennedy's popularity-the one that all future polls will presumably be measured against-69% approved, 8% disapproved, and 23% said they had no opinion about his actions and appointments in the period between his election and his inauguration. Eight years ago, Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, as registered at the same time and by the same standard, stood at 78% approval and only 4% disapproval; Ike left office with a still-remarkable 59% approval...