Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FACE THE NATION (CBS, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Interview with GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew...
...Some people say that when Nixon and Agnew speak of law and order they are using code words for racism. I would like to suggest a phrase that is clear and unambiguous: "Equal Justice Under Law," These immortal words are chiseled in marble on the Supreme Court. But I forgot; Nixon doesn't like the Supreme Court and what it stands...
Nixon, after a frantic conference with his civilrights squad, seemed to realize his Agnew-like blunder. Two days later, the retraction came. Picking up the hint, Ford led the House Republicans in an effort to overturn the Whitten rider...
BLACKS in the ghetto might not be an avowed target of "law and order," but activist students certainly are. Before Republican leaders told Spiro Agnew last month that it would be prudent for him to drop his Joe McCarthy image, his favorite campaign line was about the "definite link" between Communists and student demonstrations...
...Although Agnew does not refer to "Marxists" on campus anymore, he still assures crowds that a Nixon administration will put down by force even the mildest forms of civil disobedience. Predictably, the head of the GOP's ticket uses a softer approach to win applause at rallies. "Remember, I believe in our young people," Richard Nixon says. "They're great. Give 'em a chance." But Nixon accepts Agnew's remarks about protests, and the clear warning in his remarks is that any students who disappoint him by disrupting a university deserve to be punished...