Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spiro Agnew is the voice of the silent majority, and, praise God, we are a thoughtful, frank and vibrant people, muted no more...
...Agnew not only insulted Ambassador Harriman and the television news commentators but also, and with more subtle degradation, the intelligence of the American people. The Vice President's lack of confidence in the ability of his constituency to make discerning and reliable judgments is best matched by their lack of confidence in his ability to do the same...
...Spiro Agnew threatened to censor the mass media Harvard's Department of Athletics took the lead last weekend by twice censoring the Harvard University Band's halftime show...
...Freedom Rally crowd of 15,000 proudly self-proclaimed "squares." Swelled in response to the President's TV appeal for "the silent majority" to speak up, the cheering anti-Moratorium demonstrators represent a fresh force in the national controversy over the war. They praise Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, support the Government's course in Viet Nam and flaunt their patriotism. They resent, perhaps even more vehemently, all those rebellious youngsters and peace marchers who have attracted so much attention for so long...
...explained their motives in a letter to U.P.I, delivered last week after they had bombed the three corporation headquarters. The letter called the Viet Nam war "only the most obvious evidence of the way this country's power destroys people." The "giant corporations" are the real culprits. "Spiro Agnew may be a household word," they wrote, "but it [the public] has rarely seen men like David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan, James Roche of General Motors and Michael Haider of Standard Oil, who run the system behind the scenes...