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Public Opinion Quarterly Advance Access published online on August 21, 2007
Public Opinion Quarterly, doi:10.1093/poq/nfm025
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Presidential Address

Gladly would We Learn and Teach – and Gladly should We Gather and Preach

Robert P. Daves

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I am humbled to stand before this wonderful group of colleagues, teachers, associates – and yes, many, many friends – and carry out an AAPOR tradition of more than a half century. In 1950, the year I was born and four years after the first AAPOR gathering in Central City, CO, our founders instituted a "Presidential Evening" as an occasion on which the Association takes stock of some of its major problems. This occasion has become a custom where members grant the current president a few minutes of the conference's time to share a few of his or her thoughts.

Let me share something that I have learned about us in the past year. One is that despite having many gardeners in the ranks, there are no shrinking violets: You have not been shy in sharing your opinions with me. And I appreciate that. That trait apparently has been passed . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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