Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more disturbing was the manner in which the campaign grew ever less informative and ever less statesmanlike down to the final hours. Humphrey concentrated almost entirely on Nixon's ambivalence on the major issues and on Agnew's gaffes. The Nixon organization aired a commercial that interspersed shots of a grinning Humphrey among scenes depicting poverty, war and riots. The commercial was withdrawn from network use after only one showing, but later it was shown by at least one local station...
Answers: 1) George Wallace. 2) and 9) Spiro Agnew. 3) and 11) Curtis LeMay. 4), 7) and 10) Richard Nixon. 5) and 8) Hubert Humphrey. 6) Edmund Muskie...
...Agnew added that the decision to deposit county funds in the Chesapeake National Bank had been made not by himself but by the county director of finance, a Democratic appointee. The state does keep a relatively small amount of funds in Chesapeake National-and in perhaps 100 other banks-but the account was put there before he became Governor. Worst part of the Times's performance, from Agnew's viewpoint, was its questioning of how he had acquired some shares in the bank. According to the paper, Agnew claimed he had inherited the shares from his father, though...
...Times continued to editorialize against "Mr. Agnew's Unfitness," and even reprinted the original editorial when commenting on Agnew's rebuttal. Later the editorial page appeared to retreat a bit. "Mr. Agnew makes some debating points," the paper remarked, and eased its wording to "potential" conflict of interest. Said the Times: "No where did we accuse him of violating any law. What we did-and do-suggest is that he failed to act with sufficient propriety...
...Agnew got swift support from other sources. Maryland's Treasurer John Luetkemeyer, a Democrat, called the editorial "inaccurate, misleading and wrong in its facts." The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and the pro-Humphrey Washington Post, which are expert in Maryland politics, also came to Agnew's defense...