Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Convention Hall and in the Miami Beach hotels, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges stuck close to Candidate Ronald Reagan; Chicago's Loye Miller concentrated on the Middle West; Atlanta's Arlie Schardt stayed with the Southern delegations. Nine correspondents poked into every aspect of the Nixon-Agnew nomination, while New York staffers gathered firsthand impressions for the stories they would be working on later...
...course is to play it safe, to bet that self-preservation?just staying together as a party?will be nine-tenths of victory. It is, after all, an election in which the incumbents are in danger simply because they are incumbents. Nixon's choice of the factionally neutral Spiro Agnew as running mate was part of that strategy...
...Agnew, who was elected Governor in 1966, has said often that he basically agrees with President Johnson's Vietnam policy. In his acceptance speech last night, he said "Anarchy ,rioting, or even civil disobedience has no constructive purpose in a constitutional republic." In the prepared text, "civil disobedience" was preceded by two words which the governor failed to deliver: "currently stylish...
...knows for sure why Agnew is Nixon's choice. It was clearly not for anything he will add to the campaign--he is an unknown, and not a dynamic speaker. Agnew did help Nixon's chances for the nomination by giving up his favorite son status and supporting Nixon, but it is not likely that any deal was involved...
...order to hold Southern votes in line last night against Reagan inroads, he had apparently promised a lot of delegates he would not choose a vice-presidential candidate objectionable to any part of the country. Lindsay and Hatfield were objectionable to the South. Among those acceptable to the South. Agnew had done the most for the Nixon cause...