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...Nixon also requires a measure of popular support, or at least quiescence, if he is to continue to govern at home. Therefore it seems very likely that the next few months will see the Administration try to settle in for the long haul in Vietnam by smoothing out the rough edges of the war and trying to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be "reformed" to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam...
...unexpectedly strong challenge to the Gaullists comes from a leftwing coalition formed by the Communists and Socialists. Last July, they agreed for the first time in 35 years to campaign on a common platform and then-if they won a parliamentary majority-to govern together. Much to everyone's surprise, the so-called United Left has lately begun to show up on the long end of the opinion polls. In one nationwide sampling published last month by Le Figaro, the leftists had a 45%-to-38% lead over the Gaullists. With his personal popularity in a sharp decline...
...will of Congress to make itself felt. Perhaps more than any specific set of reforms, the Congress needs only to use more fully the tools and potential it has long possessed. "Reforms are not going to make any difference unless there is the will in Congress to want to govern," contends Packwood. "We can set policy, we can take back the powers if we want. But we have said 'can't, can't, can't' so long it has become an excuse for 'won't.' " Sums up MacNeil: "I have never seen...
...represent the public, are also too concerned with their own pet ideas, TV survelliance and the wired nation concept are problems which will have to be faced, but not this moment. The Commission is concerned with the here and now, and the commissioners must decide one policy to govern the cable industry as it exists today-a means for transmitting 80 channels of information and entertainment to the public. Making cable a common carrier was the only idea of any importance to come out of the hearings. Yet, even that proposal is beyond the present powers of the Commission...
...Year," says Nation Editor Jason McManus. "Kissinger, the President's plenipotentiary and alter ego in foreign affairs, played a quintessential role in Nixon's achievements, even in the election, where the voters' perception of the Administration's record and its competence to govern rested in no small part on the teamwork of the two men." With this issue, President Nixon becomes the first public figure ever to appear on TIME's Man of the Year cover twice in a row - even though he is here in tandem...