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Presidential advisers are encouraged by private polls that show Ford's approval rating rising in areas that he has visited, for example, Topeka, Kans., and heavily Democratic Miami. In a nationwide sampling the President did not score very well with older voters, perhaps because of inflation, but he got a surprising 53% approval rating from people aged 18 to 24. "He needs this eye-to-eye, face-to-face, hand-to-hand contact," says presidential Counsellor Robert Hartmann. "The more the better. He can read Shakespeare to people if he wants to. But he has to get out there...
Other Midwesterners have found ways to give a local twist to Revolutionary themes. Bedford, Ind., has commissioned a 21-ft.-long statue, to be made from its famed limestone, of George Washington crossing the Delaware. Explorer Scouts in Topeka plan to pilot an airplane along the perimeter of the U.S., ending in Philadelphia on July 4, 1976. Civic groups in Libertyville, Ill., are painting about 50 fireplugs to represent Revolutionary War heroes...
...Menninger, of the Menninger Foundation, is clinical director of the Topeka State Hospital and a former member of President Johnson's National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence...
...Topeka, Kans...
Lawrence, Kansas lies east of Topeka at the end of a narrow country highway. This road straddles countless hillocks and wanders around farm houses whose claim to the land is older; it is not in a hurry and travelers used to rushing must find it painful going. With the Mercury, I usually; drove the length of it in about an hour...