Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they would like to be able to continue the practice. Pressure was brought to bear on Tokyo to enlist Japan as a co-sponsor of the U.S. resolutions. As Washington's man at last week's Persian Empire gala in Iran (see story, page 32), Spiro Agnew had a handy excuse to make stops in Ankara, Teheran and Athens to press for their support...
Instead of such a girl, however, Agnew has as press secretary an eloquent right-wing ideologue named Victor Gold. Proudly admitting that Agnew is "not a guy who can be packaged," Gold, 43, performs his assignment with a frantic zeal that occasionally compounds his problems but is more often effective in smoothing things over...
During his last overseas excursion, for example, the Vice President kept repeating that foreign leaders were "appalled" at the publication of the Pentagon papers. Reporters asked whether that wasn't because the autocrats that Agnew was talking with were dismayed at the idea of so free a press. Gold thoughtfully replied that what the Vice President really meant was that heads of state were concerned that their diplomatic conversations with the U.S. might wind up in print. Agnew dutifully incorporated Gold's amendment into later speeches...
...Westbrook Pegler of my generation." Instead he became a lawyer, a public relations man and finally, in 1964, assistant press secretary to Barry Goldwater. Even before he met the Vice President, Gold wrote a still unpublished book entitled The Enemies He Has Made: The Media Morphosis of Spiro T. Agnew, which analyzed Agnew's relationship with the press, to the disadvantage of the latter...
Gold shares Agnew's view that the press is too liberal. Where he differs from the Vice President is in his day-to-day dealings with newspapermen. His theory is that obstructionism is self-defeating. "Even if the Vice President is criticizing the press," he notes, "the only way to get it out to the people is to make it available to the press...