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MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
J
June 8, 1970
Monday - 11:45 a.m
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
Dwight L. Chapin OA
ox
RE:
Gallup
Within the last week and a half, the President's old law firm
has taken as a client the Gallup organization. They are only
handling Gallup International. According to Tom Evans, they
hope to get the American Institute of Public Opinion (Gallup
domestically) as a client sometime in the future.
The question comes up as to whether or not it is a good idea to
have the President's old law firm representing the Gallup organi-
zation. I would rather see us tell the law firm that it is best for
them not to handle the business and then leak the story that the
President's old law firm was advised by the White House that they
should not take the business because it could be misconstrued.
Do you see any problems?
Tell the law firm it is best not to handle Gallup business
Let the law firm handle Gallup business
Other Stay the hell out of it
March 11, 1970
DETERMINED TO BE AN
Wednesday - 12 noon
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
By
E.O. Rs 12065, Section 6-102
NARS, Date 2-10-82
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
Dwight L. Chapin
RE:
Gallup Poll
John Davies, when he gave me the results of the poll yesterday, asked
that they be kept very confidential. He stressed they were rechecking
the poll and even suggested that one reason for the drop might be an
error in the sample.
He also indicated there had been a meeting -- probably of their editors --
where the decision was made to recheck the sample. I know from
past conversations with Davies that there are some people at Gallup
who would just as soon see us done in and would probably encourage
the release of the poll. Davies, if properly directed, would urge
against publication. Accuracy is his primary concern.
SUGGESTIONS
(A)
If I am to call saying we have some information contrary to
what they gave me yesterday, I suggest this be for a region.
Rather than say we have some national figures which don't
relate to theirs, I would point to some special polling we have
done in the South. It is easy to point out that -- as they have --
we have been looking at the South.
Our Poll
(1)
We have a "Presidential Acceptance" factor of 3 minus.
As of a week ago last Monday.
2.
(2)
This Le on a scale of 0 - 4. Translated to percentage,
it came out to around 70% acceptance -- or in your
terms (Gallup) approve.
(3)
Our poll prior to the latest -- right after the Carswell
nomination - (still having the Haynsworth fall out)
was an acceptance of 3 -- or 75% but that was the high
point.
(4)
There is a serious question as to how your poll can hit at
59% (February-March) and ours at the same period hits
70%.
(5)
Ours is a telephone survey, but it is an unusually large
sample -- and takes in the deep South and border States,
(B)
Call Davies and state the poll results have been reviewed and in
the absence of significant events between these two polling periods -
there must be something wrong. Have you decided to not publish
and wait for the next poll?
(C)
Have a couple of Senators - like Griffin, Stennis (?) - anyway a
couple of Democrats and Republicans -- call for an investigation
on persuasion of public attitudes. One major part of the statement
could be on public opinion research companies. If this could be done
within the next two days, perhaps Gallup would hold up the poll.
(D)
One other alternative would be to put some pressure on via their
subscribers - but I can't figure out how to do this since the
existence of the poll is unknown (or at least the results). If they
decided to go with it, maybe we can get a paper to question the poll -
refuse to run it and turn that into a story and tie it to point
"C" above.
DLC:ny
March 11, 1970
DESERMINED TO BE AN
Wednesday - 12 noon
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
By
E.O. Dy 12005, Section 6-102
NARS, Date 2-10-82
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
Dwight L. Chapin
RE:
Gallup Poll
John Davies, when he gave me the results of the poll yesterday, asked
that they be kept very confidential. He stressed they were rechecking
the poll and even suggested that one reason for the drop might be an
error in the sample.
He also indicated there had been a meeting -- probably of their editors --
where the decision was made to recheck the sample. I know from
past conversations with Davies that there are some people at Gallup
who would just as soon see us done in and would probably encourage
the release of the poll. Davies, if properly directed, would urge
against publication. Accuracy is his primary concern.
SUGGESTIONS
(A)
If I am to call saying we have some information contrary to
what they gave me yesterday, I suggest this be for a region.
Rather than say we have some national figures which don't
relate to theirs, I would point to some special polling we have
done in the South. It is easy to point out that -- as they have --
we have been looking at the South.
Our Poll
(1)
We have a "Presidential Acceptance" factor of 3 minus
As of a week ago last Monday.
2.
(2)
This is on a scale of 0 - 4. Translated to percentage,
it came out to around 70% acceptance -- or in your
terms (Gallup) approve.
(3)
Our poll prior to the latest -- right after the Carswell
nomination - (still having the Haynsworth fall out)
was an acceptance of 3 -- or 75% but that was the high
point.
(4)
There is a serious question as to how your poll can hit at
59% (February-March) and ours at the same period hits
70%.
(5)
Ours is a telephone survey, but it is an unusually large
sample -- and takes in the deep South and border States.
(B)
Call Davies and state the poll results have been reviewed and in
the absence of significant events between these two polling periods -
there must be something wrong. Have you decided to not publish
and wait for the next poll?
(C)
Have a couple of Senators - like Griffin, Stennis (?) - anyway a
couple of Democrats and Republicans -- call for an investigation
on persuasion of public attitudes. One major part of the statement
could be on public opinion research companies. If this could be done
within the next two days, perhaps Gallup would hold up the poll.
(D)
One other alternative would be to put some pressure on via their
subscribers - but I can't figure out how to do this since the
existence of the poll is unknown (or at least the results). If they
decided to go with it, maybe we can get a paper to question the poll -
refuse to run it and turn that into a story and tie it to point
"C" above.
DLC:ny
March 11, 1970
DETERMINED TO BE AN
Wednesday - 12 noon
ADMINISTRATIVE MARKING
E.O. 12065, Section 6-102
By RY NARS, Dated-10-82
CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. H. R. HALDEMAN
FROM:
Dwight L. Chapin
RE:
Gallup Poll
John Davies, when he gave me the results of the poll yesterday, asked
that they be kept very confidential. He stressed they were rechecking
the poll and even suggested that one reason for the drop might be an
error in the sample.
He also indicated there had been a meeting -- probably of their editors --
where the decision was made to recheck the sample. I know from
past conversations with Davies that there are some people at Gallup
who would just as soon see us done in and would probably encourage
the release of the poll. Davies, if properly directed, would urge
against publication. Accuracy is his primary concern.
SUGGESTIONS
(A)
If I am to call saying we have some information contrary to
what they gave me yesterday, I suggest this be for a region.
Rather than say we have some national figures which don't
relate to theirs, I would point to some special polling we have
done in the South. It is easy to point out that -- as they have --
we have been looking at the South.
Our Poll
(1)
We have a "Presidential Acceptance" factor of 3 minus.
As of a week ago last Monday.
2.
(2)
This la on a scale of 0 - 4. Translated to percentage,
it came out to around 70% acceptance -- or in your
terms (Gallup) approve.
(3)
Our poll prior to the latest -- right after the Carswell
nomination - (still having the Haynsworth fall out)
was an acceptance of 3 -- or 75% but that was the high
point.
(4)
There Le a serious question as to how your poll can hit at
59% (February-March) and ours at the same period hits
70%.
(5)
Ours is a telephone survey, but It is an unusually large
sample -- and takes in the deep South and border States.
(B)
Call Davies and state the poll results have been reviewed and in
the absence of significant events between these two polling periods -
there must be something wrong. Have you decided to not publish
and wait for the next poll?
(C)
Have a couple of Senators - like Griffin, Stennis (?) - anyway a
couple of Democrate and Republicans -- call for an investigation
on persuasion of public attitudes. One major part of the statement
could be on public opinion research companies. If this could be done
within the next two days, perhaps Gallup would hold up the poll.
(D)
One other alternative would be to put some pressure on via their
subscribers - but I can't figure out how to do this since the
existence of the poll is unknown (or at least the results). If they
decided to go with it, maybe we can get a paper to question the poll -
refuse to run it and turn that into a story and tie it to point
"C" above.
DLC:ny
September 26, 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. H. R. HALDEMAN
RE:
Gallup Presidential Popularity Poll
LATEST POLL
LAST TWO POLLS
September 11 - 14
August 15 - 18
July 26 - 28
Approve
60%
Approve
62%
Approve 65%
Disapprove
24%
Disapprove 20%
Disapprove 17%
No Opinion
16%
No Opinion 18%
No Opinion 18%
John Davis of the Gallup organization said that the two-point shift between
the August and September poll is rather insignificant. They will point out in
their story that they can give no reason why the shift took place. Mr. Davis
did point out that the trend (if you go back to July) is moving from approval to
disapproval.
He pointed out that the next poll they do will register the intensity of feeling
and the reasons why.
He warned that although Gallup considers the reading of the poll to be insignificent
that we can count on people like the New York Times saying that the President's
popularity is down. He also pointed out that "Gallup has to fight the New York
Times from time to time also."
DWIGHT L. CHAPIN
DLC:ny