Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only sour note under the California palms was continuing reports of adverse reaction to Agnew, who Nixon had assumed would be the least controversial of running mates. "I doubt that even the closest friends of Spiro Agnew," said a Rockefeller aide, "would suggest that he is qualified to be President." "It's the same old tricky Dicky," complained Bayard Rustin, a leader of black moderates. J. Earl Bearing, a Negro member of Nixon's advisory council on crime, admitted that even he was disturbed by Agnew's billy-club approach to civil disorders...
Traveling Man. As a campaigner, Agnew was proving a quick study. Working with the Nixon staff in California, he was given a fast lesson in how to deal with the press, learning how to gloss over embarrassing questions and how to cut his answers from a windy five minutes to a streamlined minute and a half. In his first public appearance since nomination, he was a big hit, wowing a Portuguese-American association in San Francisco with language that will likely be repeated across the nation. It was an odd mixture of sensible patriotism and a smug defense...
Despite the furor over his selection, the Nixon people bravely profess their pleasure with the Maryland Governor. "If anyone visits all 50 states this year," says one, "it will be Agnew. He'll be seeing a lot of the country...
HOWEVER the political pollsters may rate them in the weeks ahead, the adventures of Spiro and Judy Agnew, if scripted for television, would rank high in the Nielsens as wholesome domestic fare in the style of Ozzie & Harriet or Hazel...
...early scene might show Spiro Agnew, then Republican county executive of Baltimore County, leaning across the pingpong table in the rec room of their suburban house in Chatterleigh, Md. "Judy," he says, "I'm going to run for Governor." They celebrate by calling out for a pepperoni pizza...