Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of his political speeches these days, Spiro Agnew has a laugh line that goes like this: "I guess you've heard that Senator Muskie has taken a firm position on a major issue. He has set Dec. 31 as the deadline for the end of the year." The Administration's plan, reports Conservative Columnist Kevin Phillips (The Emerging Republican Majority), "is to hold Muskie's chameleon-like indecision and issue-flipflopping up to the spotlight-and even to ridicule...
Dismissed Dissents. The sudden anxiety created abroad by the table tennis team's visit was mirrored at home by an unexpected dissenter: Vice President Spiro Agnew. Attending the Republican Governors Conference at Williamsburg last week, Agnew summoned nine reporters to a late-night off-the-record chat and argued that the Administration was moving too fast in welcoming Peking's overtures, which he viewed as an easy propaganda victory for China and one, moreover, that undercut Taiwan. After his views leaked out, Agnew aides denied that there was any disagreement between the Vice President and his boss-though...
...amicable. March routes were quickly granted, and the old tactic of drawing a wagon train of protective buses around the White House has been scrapped as poor public relations, and because the Government expects fewer protesters in this quieter time. The cooling of America has even extended to Spiro Agnew. In his capacity as Senate president, Agnew granted permission for the demonstrators to assemble at the Capitol grounds, the first time a large group of protesters has been officially allowed to gather on the lawn of Capitol Hill. The main events scheduled for the three weeks of protest...
...guaranteed a place at tuition-free CUNY to any city high school graduate, regardless of his academic record, plus massive doses of tutoring and counseling for students who would otherwise flunk out. Such egalitarianism shocked critics, who feared the loss of CUNY's intellectual distinction. Vice President Agnew denounced the plan as a giveaway of "100,000 devalued diplomas." So far, the program has stretched CUNY's academic quality but not snapped...
Redden, Pecket, Chotner, Kuykendahl, and Crazy Chris rose altogether and headed off to find Agnew...