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We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'
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Hail
Chief
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There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.
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Positively
Enough People
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Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.
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Needs
President
Said
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We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.
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Explaining
Actions
Agreeing
Praising
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The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
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Travel
Downturn
Political
President
Share
Blamed
Rightly
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We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure.
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Advertising
Exposure
Campaign
Total
Portion
Smaller
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Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.
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Government
Giving
Years
Years Ago
Fraction
Much Attention
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As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
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Individual
Influence
Lost
Affect
Complex
Gotten
Individuals
Larger
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Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
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Country
Coverage
Moving
News
Rate
Voting
Declining
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Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
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Leadership
Candidates
Important
Research
Style
Voters
Evaluating
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Perceived
Shown
The Most Important
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Also the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in.
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Country
Doe
Facts
Heard
Actual
Entire
Region
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It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.
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America
Belief
Hurt
Months
Past
Traveled
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While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.
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Perception
Voters
Republicans
Stands
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Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
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Leadership
Citizens
Conspiracy
Together
Adversary
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We have for the past year and undoubtedly will be for the next year, dealing with an electorate that is more alienated and more cynical than at any point in modern time.
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Cynical
Electorate
Next
Next Year
Time Past Will
Alienated
Dealing
Point
Undoubtedly
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People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.'
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Barbara
Clinton
Fooled
Guy
People
Son
Automatically
Bush
George
Qualities
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We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.
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Ought
Six
Spectacular
White House
Weeks
Conjunction
Develop
Plan
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The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.
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Administration
Concerned
Country
Needs
President
Strategy
Theme
Campaign
Overall
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The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.
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Conservative
Credibility
Loyal
Destroy
Politicians
Endorsement
Particularly
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Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.
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Comparable
Immediate
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This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
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Leadership
Hindsight
Perception
Thinking
Benefit
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This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible
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Goal
Littles
People
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This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.
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Becoming
Possible
Getting
More And More
Putting
Resulted
System
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While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.
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Distrust
Evidence
Visible
Work Government People
Ample
Attitudes
Corporation
Directed
Union
Working People
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The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
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Exception
Unique
Voters
Ford
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I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
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Christmas
Smile
Blunt
Country
Party
Republican Party
Stupid
Public Figure
Reagan
Recognized
Respected
Statement
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This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.
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Connected
Republican Party
Committee
Directly
Ford
Liberal
Member
Rogers
Wing
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Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
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Accountability
Alienation
Cynicism
Decision
Influence
Policy
Taken
Decisions
Affect
Individuals
Policy Decisions
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There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
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Accomplished
Administration
Etc
Figures
Interviews
Months
Officials
Public Figures
Series
Ford
Planned
Speeches
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I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences.
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Avoided
Rhetoric
Appearances
Audiences
Narrow
Partisan
Talked
Trips
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Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.
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Christmas
Smile
Vacation
Aspect
Colorado
Doe
Family Tradition
Minimum
Presidency
Together
Time Family Christmas
Emphasized
Family Time Christmas
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While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
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Adversaries
Competent
Friendly
Intelligent
Leader
Mediocre
Sincere
Forceful
Relatively
Ratings
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People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them.
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Jobs
Children
Educated
Influence
People
Decisions
Distant
Children People Way
Functions
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