Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Traffic Commission yesterday refused to grant two local peace groups a permit to hold a rally tomorrow night in front of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. where Vice-President Spiro Agnew will address the Republican Party's $25-a-plate Lincoln Day Dinner...
...text seems to be taken from Spiro Agnew. Ironically, one of the nation's most effective black leaders has now made the same criticism. In the more incendiary days of black militance, says the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket, the nation's press was like an electrocardiogram, recording every spasm. Recently Jackson fought unsuccessfully through the courts to win a place on the ballot in a mayoral election against Chicago's Richard Daley. Currently Operation Breadbasket and other black organizations are laboring all over the U.S. to give black Americans an increased...
...state executives in Washington, the White House worked overtime to woo their support for the revenue-sharing plan President Nixon promoted in his State of the Union message. There was a black-tie dinner at the White House featuring Bob Hope; there were pep talks from Vice President Spiro Agnew and Treasury Secretary John Connally, a briefing with jazzy slides and graphs from Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman and a closed-doors pitch from Nixon himself...
...ordinary congressional delegation: it includes House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Mills' Senate counterpart, Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee! Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp, also a Democrat, attacked the Nixon plan for offering neither short-term nor long-term solutions to his state's problems. Agnew in turn taxed Shapp with eroding "the unified, massive effort it will take" to get revenue sharing through Congress. But the cause of federalized welfare was already making headway with the Governors. Shapp's own need is desperate, for his state is on the brink of bankruptcy. "If Shapp...
Shepard's reputation as the world's most famous golfer was short-lived. That spotlight has been pre-empted by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, whose recent bopping of three onlookers in a single day's club swinging loosed a flood of wit and wisecracking on a global scale. Comedian Bob Hope made his contribution at a White House dinner last week. "Some people," he said, "think President Nixon should send Agnew to Laos with a three-wood." Noting that the Vice President has earned a "black belt in golf," Hope said that he did not mind...