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There’s something about the man. Remarks Washington Post editorial page editor Meg Greenfield, according to conventional expectations Reagan “is due for a ‘slump in the polls’ shortly or a ‘series of setbacks’ or God knows— maybe even a ‘plunge.’ But whatever it is, he’d better have it. Otherwise how is he going to be qualified for his ‘comeback’ in January?” “Reagan may yet slump, slide, be set back, or plunge,” she concludes after a lengthy analysis of his mode of governing, “but 1 don’t think he will be like the others. He’s too normal for that.” Evans & Novak, back from Ottawa, report that the Six (the Five really; Maggie Thatcher is true blue) were rattled by Reagan. No Carter indecisiveness there. Reagan told Helmut Schmidt that he should be wary of any deal that would make West Germany too dependent on the Soviet Union for energy (the proposed multibillion-dollar pipeline to Siberia) and he put the kibosh on highfaluting Trudeau- Mitterrand proposals for big-nation funding of Third World economies. Latest Gallup shows no slippage in Reagan popularity since early June it’s still at 59 per cent, eight points higher than on Inauguration Day Robert Teeter (of Market Opinion Research) finds Republicans continuing to gain on Democrats among important constituencies: the young, Catholics, Southerners, and Westerners. He attributes this gain to Reagan’s personal popularity, public support for his economic policies, and a general improvement in the GOP image Through shrewd generalship by House Minority Leader Robert Michel (111.), a Democratic propaganda offensive has been derailed. Michel told his troops to go ahead and vote for a House resolution retaining a minimum monthly Social Security benefit. (It passed 405 to 13, and is not binding.) With thousands of demonstrating older people sweltering outside the Chamber (one poster read: “Congress When My Security Goes, So Does Yours”), the rhetoric inside was equally torrid. Sen. Russell Long (D., La.): “These dear old people, including the nuns,” should not lose any of their benefits.

Holland. Sunday Telegraph Rothco

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There’s something about the man. Remarks Washington Post editorial page editor Meg Greenfield, according to conventional expectations Reagan “is due for a ‘slump in the polls’ shortly or a ‘series of setbacks’ or God knows— maybe even a ‘plunge.’ But whatever it is, he’d better have it. Otherwise how is he going to be qualified for his ‘comeback’ in January?” “Reagan may yet slump, slide, be set back, or plunge,” she concludes after a lengthy analysis of his mode of governing, “but 1 don’t think he will be like the others. He’s too normal for that.” Evans & Novak, back from Ottawa, report that the Six (the Five really; Maggie Thatcher is true blue) were rattled by Reagan. No Carter indecisiveness there. Reagan told Helmut Schmidt that he should be wary of any deal that would make West Germany too dependent on the Soviet Union for energy (the proposed multibillion-dollar pipeline to Siberia) and he put the kibosh on highfaluting Trudeau- Mitterrand proposals for big-nation funding of Third World economies. Latest Gallup shows no slippage in Reagan popularity since early June it’s still at 59 per cent, eight points higher than on Inauguration Day Robert Teeter (of Market Opinion Research) finds Republicans continuing to gain on Democrats among important constituencies: the young, Catholics, Southerners, and Westerners. He attributes this gain to Reagan’s personal popularity, public support for his economic policies, and a general improvement in the GOP image Through shrewd generalship by House Minority Leader Robert Michel (111.), a Democratic propaganda offensive has been derailed. Michel told his troops to go ahead and vote for a House resolution retaining a minimum monthly Social Security benefit. (It passed 405 to 13, and is not binding.) With thousands of demonstrating older people sweltering outside the Chamber (one poster read: “Congress When My Security Goes, So Does Yours”), the rhetoric inside was equally torrid. Sen. Russell Long (D., La.): “These dear old people, including the nuns,” should not lose any of their benefits.

Holland. Sunday Telegraph Rothco