Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crocodile tears for Walter Cronkite [May 31]. If the networks had their way, the only function of the FCC would be to ensure that the three network giants had no major competition. Does Cronkite believe that Agnew & Co. are responsible for his sinking credibility, when Cronkite has held his office longer than Nixon, Agnew and Johnson put together...
Until the three major networks cease their chorus-line kick approach to the news, a rich vein of public skepticism will be available for Agnew to exploit...
...Behind Cronkite's professional face, there are opinions after all. Wouldn't it be great to hear some of them on the daily news? Agnew's relentless attacks show a definite trend in the future use of the office of the vice presidency: for backstabbing, slander and big-mouthism that clearly shows vanity and the inability to deal effectively. The press is real; it cannot be dealt with lightly, ,and it does more to check and balance itself than the Government could...
Suddenly things are different. Yale now wears the bell-bottoms in the Ivy Lague family. Their president gets attacked by Spiro Agnew. Their Classics Professor Erich Segal writes a "novel" about Youth Romance Today" ("Jen ... what would you say if I told you ... I think ... I'm in love with you." "I would say ... you were full of shit." The ellipses are his.) which clings moistly to the top of the bestseller lists, bringing lumpen to the throats of the proletariat (because a baker's daughter can marry a banker's son, even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists...
...much as one can tell from the available autobiographies, Harvard '21 does not seem all that different politically from most Harvard classes, at least until recent years. There are some who shout approval for Agnew and hatred for long-haired "liberals," but most of those who state political beliefs state progressive ones...