Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon-Agnew fall campaign, by what it stressed and what it ignored, glazed the Administration with a more conservative patina than its actual policies warranted. The approach lost more than it gained. Further, the President goes into his second two years with most of his program still unrealized. Hence Richard Nixon the policymaker and administrator now has considerable causeand opportunityto edge back toward the middle...
...make a willy-nilly alliance with the G.O.P. left. For the sake of both appearances and tactics, the President must hold his right flank. Among the first politicians he saw after the election were leaders of Senator-elect James Buckley's New York Conservative Party. Last week Spiro Agnew was still refighting the campaign, arguing that the only mistake was that "we undersold our message...
...Flight President. Less visibly, Nixon, other officials and Agnew himself were looking ahead rather than back. Nixon, the in-flight President, did not let his travelsfrom Key Biscayne to Washington to Paris and back to Washingtondeter him from constant consultation with aides. Much of his flying time was spent on domestic affairs, including the budget and economic message he will submit to Congress in January...
Suddenly things are different. Yale now wears the bell-bottoms in the Ivy League 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...
...only to observe Richard Nixon during the recent elections to see how appalling they are. The President avoided most major issues. He did not discuss inflation, unemployment, Cambodia, the Middle East, Vietnam, foreign policy in general, pollution control, civil rights, or the causes of student unrest. Rather, he and Agnew made frantic appeals around the Social Issue: promiscuity, drugs, pornography, campus unrest, "law and order." Their approach to these problems followed the book's advice when, for instance the authors suggest how to talk about student radicals...