Vox Pop

By Janice Castro

Do you think Robert Gates is telling the truth when he says he does not remember many of the details of the Iran-contra affair?

Yes 18%

No 58%

Not sure 24%

From a telephone poll of 500 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Sept. 19 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 4.5%.

With reporting by Sidney Urquhart