Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oddly, it was Spiro Agnew who seemed to be taking the higher rhetorical road. He accepted his uncontested renomination with a speech he wrote himself that was admirably devoid of bombast and his normal partisan narrowness. To be sure, he attacked McGovern's policies as "piecemeal, inconsistent and illusory" and claimed that the Democratic candidate would "retreat into isolationism, abandon our allies, and concentrate wholly on our internal affairs at the great expense of our national security." Yet he also called for an end to policies that would "divide this nation into partisan blocs, each fighting only...
...excitement of the Republican Convention had nothing to do with this year's presidential campaign. It was an opening skirmish for the 1976 contest. Liberals clashed with conservatives in a classic Republican encounter; and as usual, the outnumbered, outmaneuvered liberals lost. The big winner appears to be Spiro Agnew, who has clearly begun...
...height of the sporadic chaos, caused mostly by a few small "mobile affinity groups" of trashers, who in some cases came equipped with their own tear gas, occurred during Nixon's and Agnew's acceptance speeches, and therefore received almost no television coverage. But simultaneous logs of the police radio channel and the convention proceedings capture the yin and yang of the final evening...
...Senator Robert Griffin introduces Agnew: "The magic hour is at hand...
...further ahead of him politically, why wouldn't he grind his enemies under his heel?" Others foresee a very "relaxed" second term under a mellower Nixon, presiding over a healing "era of good feeling" in the nation. That, of course, would require a quite different use of Spiro Agnew, a less rhetorical and more substantive role for him in domestic programs...