During a recent coast-to-coast odyssey, I idly ventured the proposition that Dyndon Johnson is the most unpopular President of modern times. Whether on radio and television, on campus or the golf course, round the cocktail cabinet or in the coffee shop, never a voice was raised in dissent. Not merely did nobody reveal any personal enthusiasm for the President, nobody followed the usual practice of denouncing his admirers as Communists, fascists, homosexuals etc. With Johnson there are apparently no admirers to belabor. Mr. Jack Valenti’s slumber-sweeter club seems to have as few members as the flat-earthers. This is extraordinary, for normally there is no public figure so fatuous or so wicked that some people will not say that he’s not such a fool as he looks or that he is kind to beagles. But Mr. Johnson has effected a transition from consensus to nonsensus in a bare two years which is remarkable even granted the traditional fickleness of the citizenry.
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