Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What do we have-Nixon prancing round the country while kids in the capital city are being teargassed. What do we have-19th century Agnew pontificating somewhere while long-haired youths are being herded into compounds...
...former political power since the last presidential inauguration; it was a retrospective gallery of an era. There, under the monolithic and somehow Assyrian proportions of the library, were several thousand of Lyndon Johnson's friends and not a few of his old enemies, along with Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and dozens of the other men who took over Washington when L.B.J. went home. There, in Johnson's considerable embrace, were Barry Goldwater and Hubert Humphrey, Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, Abe Fortas, Billy Graham, Luci and Lynda, Edmund Muskie, Walt Rostow, secretaries, plumbers, Congressmen, phone operators and, perhaps fittingly...
...there-the history of our time, with the bark off." Nixon inadvertently got off the funniest line of the day: "As President Johnson was throwing me-er-showing me through the library . . ." Afterward, the Rev. George Davis of Washington, standing just in front of Vice President Agnew, offered a Spironian benediction rejoicing, among other things, that the University of Texas is "not yet frozen in the glacier of pseudo intellectualism...
...sure, the Vice President, currently in the statesman-like pose of revenue-sharing salesman, has not completely abandoned polemics (see THE PRESS). Dole insists that he is not trying to replace Agnew as what he calls "the No. 1 chopper and gut cutter." Yet in a sense, he is the new Agnew...
Last Tuesday night, four days after the first anniversary of the murders at Jackson State, Vice President Agnew addressed a $100-a-plate Republican dinner in Jackson. Speaking "in the heartland of the old Confederacy... as an American who loves and would preserve our country's free institutions-to his fellow Americans who love and would preserve our country's free institutions" from "the opportunism of the new demagogues and actions of the New Left street gangs," Agnew began his speech by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen: It's good to be back in Jackson." Much was said in the twenty...