Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battery of phrases that came from neither the Administration nor its attackers. Notable among these are Women's Lib, Machismo and Middle America. But the Nixon team clearly walks away with the flight-of-fancy award, for which Safire must take part credit. As a Nixon and Agnew speechwriter, Safire is himself, responsible for Nattering Nabobs of Negativism...
WHITE KNIGHT: THE RISE OF SPIRO AGNEW...
...hands of the Spiro Agnew watches move on, a dated joke. The man-no joke-moves on too. In 31 years he has advanced from "Spiro who?" to the most famous Vice President in U.S. history-but he is still an enigma...
Exactly who is Spiro Theodore Agnew and why is he saying all those terrible things about radic-libs? Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, addresses himself to these questions like a good newspaperman: patiently, in detail. His trusting assumption is that if a biographer provides a reader with a politician's record, he is finally giving...
Witcover's interesting failure-the reader gets just about everything but the man-suggests this basic rule for future biographers: Agnew must be understood less as a politician than an improbable culture hero...