Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everybody's Doing It. The President himself has helped propagate that notion. In his TV speech on Watergate two weeks ago, he assured the nation that "both our great parties have been guilty of such tactics ... the campaign excesses have occurred on all sides." Last week Vice President Agnew concurred. This is not the first time that governments have been linked to scandals, from Teapot Dome on down, said Agnew...
...strange way, Nixon and Agnew were thus close to agreeing with the line pushed hard by the far left, that it is the entire system, the Establishment and all its works, that is to blame for whatever is wrong in the U.S. Most of the public appears to agree, at least about politics. In a Gallup poll taken just after the President's TV talk, 58% of the respondents said that there was little difference between the corruption of the Nixon Administration and that of other Administrations in the last 25 years. People who were queried last week voiced...
GOVERNOR NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER, 64, stands to gain by his remoteness from Watergate. Likely to win an unprecedented fifth term as Governor of New York, Rocky may have a modest chance of stopping Connally-and Republican Conservatives Spiro Agnew and Ronald Reagan-provided that he can rally moderate Republicans behind...
VICE PRESIDENT SPIRO AGNEW, 54, is as incapable of dissociating himself from the Nixon Administration's misdeeds -though he is trying-as Hubert Humphrey was of detaching himself from Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policy in 1968. Nixon is cool to Agnew, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman disliked him, but Agnew presented himself to the public as a 200% rooter for the team. That will be hard to live down...
...NIXON AND WATERGATE. "I do not want Nixon to resign. Agnew is worse than Nixon. I prefer a weakened Nixon in front of me-he will not have the same prestige as before-to a new Agnew in back of me ... Your people cannot be moved by the killing of yellow people. The killing of Cambodians means nothing to them. Watergate is more important to them, and we put our hope in the Watergate affair...