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The Democrats’ big problem continues to be—Ronald Reagan. . . . Even the crusty, Right-hating, curmudgeonly Mary McGrory admitted to a TV interviewer that the President “is not a whiner. There’s no self-righteousness.” . . . Agree with him or disagree with him, says former Sen. Abraham Ribi-coff (D., Conn.), Reagan’s is “the first landmark Presidency since Roosevelt formulated a series of social, economic, and political solutions that continue to dominate the American scene. . . . He [Reagan] is the only President I know who has kept his campaign promises, who has tried to achieve what he said he would.” . . . Democrat-turned-Republican Phil Gramm, now back on House Budget Committee, is cross with conservatives who carp at the President. “The conservative groups that have criticized the President are still protesting. The President is trying to govern.” . . . Latest Gallup indicates Reagan is holding steady in the polls: his approval rating in late March: 41; it was 42 nine months ago. . . . Incidentally, another Gallup poll reveals, surprisingly, that Americans believe only the rich and business executives have been treated better by Reagan Administration than women and blacks.

Brouhaha over the Chicago election with its racial under-and over-tones all but obscured fact that a week earlier San Antonio, Tex. re-elected its first Hispanic mayor, Henry Cisneros, by an astounding 94 per cent margin. … In Colorado a week earlier, Republican Dan Schaefer scored a nearly 2 to 1 victory over Democrat Steve Hogan for Jack Swigert’s 6th CD House seat. Swigert, a former astronaut, died within weeks of his election. . . . How moderate is John Glenn? Not very, says National Taxpayers Union, which rates him the fifth biggest spender in the Senate, behind Alan Cranston to be sure, but a bigger spender than the otherwise more liberal Gary Hart. . . . Glenn is still No. 2 behind Mondale in latest Gallup, but the third most popular Democrat is a surprise, former Gov. Jerry Brown of Calif. . . . Nineteen months and two days before the next presidential election, Sen. Dale Bumpers (Ark.) took himself out of contention: no money, no visible national support.

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The Democrats’ big problem continues to be—Ronald Reagan. . . . Even the crusty, Right-hating, curmudgeonly Mary McGrory admitted to a TV interviewer that the President “is not a whiner. There’s no self-righteousness.” . . . Agree with him or disagree with him, says former Sen. Abraham Ribi-coff (D., Conn.), Reagan’s is “the first landmark Presidency since Roosevelt formulated a series of social, economic, and political solutions that continue to dominate the American scene. . . . He [Reagan] is the only President I know who has kept his campaign promises, who has tried to achieve what he said he would.” . . . Democrat-turned-Republican Phil Gramm, now back on House Budget Committee, is cross with conservatives who carp at the President. “The conservative groups that have criticized the President are still protesting. The President is trying to govern.” . . . Latest Gallup indicates Reagan is holding steady in the polls: his approval rating in late March: 41; it was 42 nine months ago. . . . Incidentally, another Gallup poll reveals, surprisingly, that Americans believe only the rich and business executives have been treated better by Reagan Administration than women and blacks.

Brouhaha over the Chicago election with its racial under-and over-tones all but obscured fact that a week earlier San Antonio, Tex. re-elected its first Hispanic mayor, Henry Cisneros, by an astounding 94 per cent margin. … In Colorado a week earlier, Republican Dan Schaefer scored a nearly 2 to 1 victory over Democrat Steve Hogan for Jack Swigert’s 6th CD House seat. Swigert, a former astronaut, died within weeks of his election. . . . How moderate is John Glenn? Not very, says National Taxpayers Union, which rates him the fifth biggest spender in the Senate, behind Alan Cranston to be sure, but a bigger spender than the otherwise more liberal Gary Hart. . . . Glenn is still No. 2 behind Mondale in latest Gallup, but the third most popular Democrat is a surprise, former Gov. Jerry Brown of Calif. . . . Nineteen months and two days before the next presidential election, Sen. Dale Bumpers (Ark.) took himself out of contention: no money, no visible national support.