wide margins on the importance of the
U.S. commitment to NATO and on the need at times to support foreign dictators. But "influentials" were twice as likely to support U.S. arms sales abroad; 64 percent of the public favored strong U.S. efforts to contain communism, while only 45 percent of the leaders did.
The authors also found the public more "chauvinistic" than its lead- ers. More than 88 percent of the public but only 26 percent of the leadership group believed America's...