Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Edmund Muskie sat with Hubert Humphrey in a pre-election TV talkathon from Los Angeles, Richard Nixon conducted his own four-hour program without the help of his running mate. To make sure that Agnew did not feel slighted, however, Nixon was almost comically extravagant in his praise. The Marylander, said Nixon, "is a man with brains. He's a man of very great courage. He doesn't wilt under fire." Meanwhile, Agnew campaigned in Virginia, then flew home to Maryland, where he relaxed on Election Day on the golf course, and gave a party in Government House...
Most people?including, it sometimes seemed, the vice-presidential candidate himself?lost sight of Agnew's strengths during the campaign. A relatively progressive, pragmatic Governor, he has shown skill in administration and a taste for innovation. His proposal for uniform national-welfare payments certainly deserves consideration as a practical means of stopping the flow of rural poor, white as well as black, to big-city slums. While he is appallingly insensitive and callous, few can deny Agnew's personal decency and quiet sense of humor. Most independent observers agree that the New York Times made much out of little...
Surprise. Still, the campaign left many uneasy doubts about Agnew. Though he said before his nomination that he would delegate important domestic chores to his Vice President, Nixon is unlikely in the near future to give Agnew more than symbols of power. Nixon, suggested some of his lieutenants, had expected far better from Agnew and was surprised by his performance. Even before the votes were tabulated, Nixon staffers were speculating about the name of the Republican vice-presidential nominee...
...changed drastically, partly because the chief executive's job has become so burdensome that genuine help from the Vice President might be highly useful, but more obviously, because John Kennedy's assassination has dramatized the fact that the Vice President really must be considered the President's heir. Both Agnew and Nixon now face the challenge of erasing the doubts about the 39th Vice President and preparing him for the potential role his office is designed to fill...
Inevitably, the outcome of the 1968 elections put the political futures of all the men involved into new perspectives and new lights-some brighter, some dimmer. Besides the Nixon-Agnew victory, what may prove to be a major factor in many careers is the surprisingly good showing of Hubert Humphrey...