Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think we can safely say that the only consistent thing about Senator McGovern is his consistent inconsistency."-Spiro Agnew...
...What really makes my heart bleed is that these bleeding hearts don't have any sympathy for the people that stand in the South Vietnamese marketplace when rockets were deliberately aimed at them."-Agnew...
...hard, and with Nixon stumping for him, Riegle won the seat. But taking to heart the bromides of "conscientious representation" and "moral leadership", Riegle lobbied for change in a party too rigid and regressive to accomodate him. His disaffection dated from the 1968 Republican Convention's nomination of Spiro Agnew. The Michigan delegation tried to get John Lindsay, then George Romney, to make a floor fight. The rest is history; Romney received virtually no support and Lindsay wound up, to his everlasting regret, seconding Agnew's nomination...
...were berating the Democrats about a curious issue, one rarely if ever raised in a presidential election. "Dividing Americans into quotas is totally alien to the American tradition," declared President Nixon. "The way to end discrimination against some is not to begin discrimination against others." Contended Vice President Spiro Agnew: "A quota system, regardless of its avowed intent, has no place in a free society." It would, he said, "Push America backward, back into the failures of a bygone era of narrow-minded prejudices and internecine conflicts...
George McGovern, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew have all revealed their financial worth. Last week it was Sargent Shriver's turn, and it proved to be the most surprising disclosure to date. Shriver, married to a Kennedy millionairess, turned out to be the poorest of the quartet of main political contenders. He put his net worth at the round figure...