Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Interview with Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew, G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate...
Natural Ground. In campaign strategy, too, there is a major difference. Nixon obviously hopes for some Southern support. He plucked Spiro Agnew from obscurity at least partly to avoid offending Dixie. Like Nixon, Humphrey enjoyed heavy Southern support for the nomination. But he gave the South little in return. He ignored a Southern list of seven proposed candidates for the vice-presidential nomination and selected the man he considered best qualified of those willing to make the race...
...religiously balanced tickets and of purely ethnic appeal may be dying, but it is not quite dead. Besides, there are considerably more Poles in the U.S. (6,000,000) than Greeks (600,000), giving the Democrats a clear edge in that department over Nixon's vice-presidential choice, Spiro Agnew. Particularly important is the fact that the heaviest concentrations of Poles are in nine key industrial states that account for 196 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.* Muskie may well be able to offset George Wallace's strong appeal to this bloc. In his acceptance speech...
...detail and distaste for florid rhetoric. It was hardly foreseeable before last week that the Democratic vice-presidential nominee?who is in fact the son of a Polish-born tailor?would be matched against a Republican opposite number from Maryland with a curiously similar background. Muskie and Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's running mate, are both sons of immigrants. Both grew up in straitened circumstances. Both have foreshortened surnames, and both are generally unfamiliar to the American electorate...
...more accurate to say that he acted as the king's bodyguard, jealously fending off the Reagan forces because they could not carry the nation, and assiduously blocking the selection of an outright liberal as Nixon's No. 2 man. Thurmond & Co. finally settled for Spiro Agnew, not as a friend but certainly as a non-enemy...