Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sounded more like a sermon-and was not overly kind to his earlier host at the White House. After all, Graham had urged Nixon to make the race in 1968, and had been on hand at the discussions in Miami in August that led to the choice of Spiro Agnew as Nixon's running mate...
...council will be larger than originally indicated. With Nixon as chairman, it will include Vice President Spiro Agnew and the heads of seven departments: Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Health, Education and Welfare, Commerce, Transportation, Labor and Agriculture. Moynihan will serve as a kind of chief of staff...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, his urban affairs adviser, and Henry Kissinger, his national security specialist, do their brainwork in basement enclaves. In his most unusual departure from tradition, Nixon has given Spiro Agnew an office in the White House, only 50 paces from his own. President-watchers concluded uncharitably that Nixon is anxious to keep his Vice President on a short leash...
Currently, Wills is assured a larger audience, with a long piece on Richard Nixon in the penultimate Saturday Evening Post and another on Spiro Agnew in Esquire. Both articles will be part of his forthcoming book, Nixon Agonistes, which he works on when he is not writing his book on Sophocles or teaching his graduate-school seminar at Johns Hopkins on the Greek dramatist. Just who does Wills think he is? "I'm a classicist who wants to write journalism," he says. "I see nothing odd about that. I didn't intend to go into journalism until...
...truly reflects the will of the people. More significantly, he thinks free enterprise is no more valid as a foundation for an economy than the notion that, in a free marketplace of ideas, the best ideas will necessarily prevail. No conventional conservative could have written his account of Spiro Agnew, in whom he feels, "America's old dimmed-puritan mixture still works-morals without religion, a peremptory must without a tempering why (inverse of the European formula, religion without morals). Agnew maintains the cult of success as a form of righteousness. America's history revolves around the interconnected...