Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VICE PRESIDENCY On the Road with Agnew With stops in Spain, Morocco and Portugal this week, Vice President Spiro Agnew will wind up his 32-day, tennation tour of Asia, Africa and Europe. TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey has been with the Vice President all the way. From the Congo, he sent the following assessment...
...Seoul, his first official stop, Spiro Agnew firmly planted his foot on the platform of his slow-moving, flag-emblazoned Jeep, and hung on tight. The determination was unmistakable and prophetic. On this, his third official trip abroad, the Vice President was clearly determined to resist his well-known proclivity for putting his foot in his mouth. The result has been a mission free of serious or even amusing gaffes like the Philippines miscue in 1969, when Agnew nearly sat on President Marcos...
...Melvin Laird spent the week in Japan, where he stressed the fact that his hosts must assume a greater share of the defense burden in the Pacific once the U.S. withdraws from Viet Nam. This week he goes to South Korea to discuss the ramifications of withdrawal. Vice President Agnew was in Saudi Arabia, fourth stop on his 32-day, ten-nation itinerary. More cryptic about his mission, Agnew's purpose seems to be to reassure the friendly, if conservative, nations he visits that the U.S. was not slipping irretrievably leftward under the pressures of Viet...
What then, is the Vice President-or the President-up to? One speculation is that the trip is a graceful easing out of Agnew, that Nixon may be giving his Vice President a farewell taste of the trappings of glory before bouncing him from the 1972 ticket. Some support can be found for the theory. Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connally Jr. was last week tapped to announce the Administration's latest economic stance, a clear sign of Presidential favor...
More likely, however, the trip is intended to upgrade the Agnew image. After his abrasive appearances on the U.S. banquet circuit, distance may lend Agnew the aura of an American statesman. Then, too, there is not much for Agnew to do at home just now. Summer months are slim ones on the political fund-raising circuit...