According to Gallup, 80% of those Americans who were listening said they supported the president’s plan, 77% claimed they were satisfied with his plan for troop withdrawals, and 72% believed that the upcoming Moratorium Day protests would be harmful to the attainment of peace.32 Whatever sophisticated critics might say, millions of Americans had appreciated what they saw as the president’s moral gravity and his calm assurance that there really was a plan to get the country out of the war.
