Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year election campaigns, Nixon invested an extraordinary amount of his prestige. He commissioned Vice President Spiro Agnew. already a rhetorical event in American politics, to go forth as the G.O.P.'s scourge. Agnew's campaign, calculatedly outrageous, won headlines but not votes, and ended by alienating and irritating many of the voters. The Republicans suffered a net loss of 13 governorships and nine seats in the House, and gained only a probable two seats in the Senate, where the Democrats retained a commanding lead. The election was scarcely over when Nixon began tacking into more conciliatory positions for 1972. After...
...second point was aimed as much at men like Spiro Agnew as at critics from the left: "Resist the temptation to respond in kind to the untruths and the half-truths that begin to fill the air. The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt foresaw that ours would be the age of 'the great simplifiers,' and that the essence of tyranny was the denial of complexity. What we need are great complexifiers-men who will not only seek to understand what it is they are about but who will also dare to share that understanding with those for whom they...
...another matter, Agnew did promise relief. Faced with complaints that Republican Governors have trouble making their voices heard in the White House, the Vice President promised to spend more time serving as Nixon's intermediary in state-level politics. He was assigned that job by the President in February 1969, but has spent little time fulfilling its duties. Pledged Agnew: "We will strengthen our efforts at liaison...
Perhaps so, but Agnew is hardly taking himself off the banquet circuit. The very next day, in a speech in Akron to honor William H. Ayres, a Republican who was defeated in November after ten terms in Congress, Agnew opened Round No. 2 in the defense of his campaign role. He firmly disagreed with "the implication that the harsh thrust of partisan debate suddenly in 1970 no longer has a place in American politics," and declared that "division can be constructive...
Last week, after modeling his new, somewhat military bathrobe at a West Point preview, Funnyman Bob Hope, 67, put his show on the G.I. road for the 20th Christmas season. Hope's send-off included a Christmas supercard signed by President Nixon, Vice President Agnew, the Governors of the 50 states and all the members of Congress. He also got a holiday shopping assignment: he's to "buy the boys soft drinks" with a check for $8,000 from the Women's Christian Temperance Union. With an 87-member troupe including Actress Ursula Andress, Cincinnati Reds Catcher...