Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the crocodile tears being shed are a manifestation of the losers' syndrome that would brand Agnew as a racist and Humphrey as a rightist, both of which are blatant nonsense...
Nixon's running mate had apparently not got the word. At first, Spiro Agnew faulted the police for "overreacting." Then, in an intemperate off-the-cuff tirade before the Young Republicans in York, Pa., he did an about-face and said that the whole business, together with campus revolts, had been largely inspired by Communists and "fellow travelers." The Marylander confided that he had heard "through channels" that demonstrators in Chicago had inserted razor blades in their shoes to kick the cops. All that the "hippies and yippies" can do, he said, is "lay down in a park...
Talking Wildly. Until that outburst, which made even the "old Nixon" sound moderate, Agnew had been a model of circumspection. Painstakingly coached by expert Nixon aides, he showed careful, frequently thoughtful preparation in his formal speeches. Speaking on his own, though, he hit an entirely different tone. Besides talking wildly of the Communist menace, he argued against "appeasement of militant minorities in the ghettos." Entering the Fortas controversy for the first time, he took the remarkable line that Earl Warren, "a very competent Chief Justice," was responsible for the whole fuss. By retiring "precipitately," Agnew said, Warren...
...Agnew's missteps, however, were only minor in an otherwise smooth start to the nine-week campaign. Beside the danger of overconfidence, not a very serious worry, Nixon's main course for nervousness was what politicians are now calling "the Wallace factor." While Nixonites say optimistically that Wallace's strength will soon ebb (see following story), they are coppering their bets, talking less now about a "Southern strategy" and more about a "big-state strategy." Even if Wallace does take Southern states that the Republicans had hitherto counted on, they reason, Nixon can still win handily...
...Unlike Agnew, who after less than two years as Governor of Maryland was little known among politicians outside his state until he received the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination, Ed Muskie has a hard-earned reputation on Capitol Hill as a diligent and imaginative politician. As Maine's first Democratic Governor in 20 years (1954-58) and subsequently the first popularly elected Democratic Senator in the state's history, he cracked the granitic G.O.P. fortress in Maine, creating a new independent-minded breed of voters known as Muskie Republicans...