Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flew into Washington for a minisummit. All three brimmed with confidence-or, as Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell put it after Westmoreland had addressed Russell's Armed Services Committee behind closed doors, "cautious optimism" (see following story). Said one aide, mindful that the latest Louis Harris Poll* shows Johnson's rating on his handling of the war at an all-time...
...Gibing at polls, Johnson told a Gridiron dinner held by Washington's press corps that before Patrick Henry delivered his "Give me liberty or give me death!" oration in 1775, he-naturally-conducted a poll. The results: 46% were for liberty, 39% for death, and the rest didn't know...
Eliot House men voted at lunch with the other Houses. After the poll was finally opened at 6:30 p.m., the voting proceeded according to plan...
...people of San Francisco that there be an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam so that the Vietnamese people can settle their own problems?" The proposition was defeated by a vote of 136,516 (63%) to 78,806 (37%)-and a new Gallup poll shows that, nationwide, Americans are split on the issue by roughly the same ratio. Still, the fact that more than a third of the voters supported a more or less instant-withdrawal position suggests that a more carefully phrased or more moderate de-escalating proposition might have carried...
...tapped and Boston could again become an exciting city. But if Mrs. Hicks gets elected, Boston will continue to decay until it becomes as stolid and as provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens of America does seem open to question...