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accurately at the moment, in detail, will affect my final judgment.
I guess you've got to say, when you get down to the end result, it's
what you really feel politically is the proper thing to do.

Q. You felt very strongly, not too long ago, that the right thing to
do would be to support Governor Rockefeller, and there are those
within the delegation who think you really haven't changed your
mind.

A. Well, I think if Governor Rockefeller is nominated I'll support
him very strongly. There isn't any question about that. Whether I
am going, at this point, to throw my weight behind Governor Rocke-
feller or Mr. Nixon or Governor Reagan is something I must keep
to myself until I've discussed the situation with the delegation on
Monday. So there won't be any announcement until that time.

Q. Governor, what is your assessment of these latest polls this week?

A. How can you assess polls? Obviously, the information collected
is substantially in disagreement between one and the other. And
I've never felt that polls are totally reliable. I remember what hap-
pened in the Oregon poll, when they projected that Governor Reagan
was going to make very serious inroads into the Nixon vote, and he
didn't. And I remember a poll a long time ago that Governor Dewey
was involved in that didn't come out too well.

Q. Governor, of the three candidates mentioned, which would make
the best President?

A. I think any one of those three people would be a very fine
nominee for the party.

(Civil Disorders — Crime)

Q. Governor Agnew, there seems to be coming out of the news
frequently — yesterday and today — how the different candidates will
handle civil disorders, and you made a statement in New York. Do
you think there is much difference really between the Democrats and
the Republicans as to clamping down on offenders in this line?

A. I notice in the morning paper that three separate people have
come out very strongly against crime with the so-called "hard line"
on crime — Vice President Humphrey and Mr. Nixon and, I can't
recall the third one, but I do know there were three on the front page
of the newspaper this morning. The thing that puzzles me is why
some people seem to think there shouldn't be a hard line on crime,
or why my recent hard line on crime is characterized as a departure