Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate seat and who has privately stated that he thinks President Nixon is "up to his ears" in the Watergate mess. Said Proxmire: the secondhand press accounts of what White House Counsel John W. Dean III told federal investigators represent a "McCarthyistic destruction of the President." Vice President Spiro Agnew followed with an attack on the publication of anonymous "hearsay" as "a very short jump from McCarthyism...
...more years-with two off for good behavior." More ominously, there was open speculation, in print as well as in conversation, about the President's being impeached or having to resign. Even Nixon's bitterest foes dreaded the prospect, if only because it would mean President Spiro Agnew. Congressman Henry Reuss, a liberal Democrat, made a rather fantastic proposal for the resignations of both Nixon and Agnew...
Divorced. Zeppo Marx, 72, the youngest Marx Brother (real name: Herbert), who quit the madcap vaudeville and movie team in 1934 to become an actors' agent; and Barbara Marx, fortyish, former model and current golfing and tennis pal of Frank Sinatra and Vice President Spiro Agnew; after 14 years of marriage, no children; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...helping to reveal the truth. After the speech, he told reporters to "continue to give me hell whenever you think I'm wrong." Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler the next day publicly apologized to the Washington Post for his past denunciations of the paper's Watergate coverage. Spiro Agnew followed with his own peace offering by lamenting the "unfortunate hostility" that has existed between officials and journalists. Both sides, he said, should "put aside visceral reaction and engage in a productive and intelligent discussion of their differences...
...large news organizations, precisely the ones assailed by Spiro Agnew and others, that mustered the resources and courage to dig out the facts and present them to a national audience. Smaller newspapers and local TV stations, often patted on the head by the Administration for their "straight" reporting, simply lacked the means...