Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to believe that Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew will now begin a four-year term in Washington because of the timing of three men. Mayor Richard J. Daley gave up on Hubert Humphrey a little too early, President Johnson sat on his hands a little too long, and Senator Eugene McCarthy did not realize there were other people in this country until it was a little too late...
...Vice President, Spiro Agnew may also find his role severely circumscribed. In their first meeting after the election, Nixon announced that he would give Agnew substantive responsibilities not held by previous Vice Presidents, but failed to spell them out. Agnew will not have independent executive offices or an executive staff-perquisites that Nixon, Johnson and Humphrey all enjoyed. Instead, the Vice President-elect will have an office in the White House and use Nixon's staff. Agnew thus will be kept conveniently close at hand, where Nixon and his aides can keep...
...world's more conservative, anti-Communist governments welcomed Nixon's election, especially such rightist strongholds as South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal. It was only in Greece, however, that people actually celebrated the event. The cause for Greek enthusiasm, of course, was Spiro T. Agnew, whose father, Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, was born in Gargalianoi in southern Greece. Of the town's present 7,000 inhabitants about 300 are named Anagnostopoulos...
...delegations that would have been necessary for the House to choose a winner. Democrats will command-but only in name-25 delegations, and the G.O.P. 20; five are evenly divided, hence would have lost their vote. Thus it might have been left to the Senate to select either Spiro Agnew or Edmund Muskie as Acting President...
...undistinguished and vulnerable. Only seven Republican seats will be on the line, and most seem safe and solid. The G.O.P. needs only eight or nine more Senators to win 50% of the Senate seats ?and then any tie votes could be broken by Vice President Spiro Agnew...