Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strident outburst was a physical assault on his campaign motorcade in San Jose, Calif., during the closing week of the campaign. It was an attack that came dangerously close to disaster, but it played perfectly into the President's political hands. Throughout the campaign, Nixon and Vice President Agnew have tried to win Republican votes through popular resentment against extremist-and sometimes not so extremist-dissidents. At times, small groups of hecklers were deliberately allowed into his audiences, just numerous and noisy enough to enable Nixon to score the points he wanted to make. In San Jose, however...
...strategy' " -and promising that "this Administration will appoint, and will see confirmed, a Southern strict constructionist on the Supreme Court." At a Navy League dinner in Manhattan, he fired an old-fashioned broadside at members of Congress who have become "viscerally antagonistic toward the whole defense complex." Said Agnew: "Deep down in their hearts is a feeling that international Communism is no longer really dangerous, at least not as dangerous as it used to be, so that America can safely dispense with expending major sums on modern armaments." It seemed a curious comment from a Vice President whose President...
Simplistic Solutions. Agnew's blunderbuss assaults on "radical liberals" have infuriated thoughtful moderates. New York's Mayor John Lindsay, who split with his party to back Democrat Arthur Goldberg against Nelson Rockefeller, observed last week that the 1970 campaign "has spread a cloud of suspicion and mistrust over our whole nation." He added: "Men with great power and high office make headlines that stir fears rather than rally hopes. They have charged that opposition to their policies somehow is an incitement to unrest and violence. That charge is incredible...
...Agnew's principal candidates for political oblivion is New York's Charles Goodell, an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War. Last week, after finding himself trailing both Conservative James Buckley and Democrat Richard Ottinger in the New York Daily News straw poll, Goodell preempted Lassie to announce that he would stay in the race despite his poor showing and the Administration's refusal to endorse him. Sometimes, he said, a Senator "has to fight the tide-when the tide, in his opinion, is running wrong, when the frustrations of our people accumulate to lead them...
...Democrats have been hobbled in their anti-Agnew campaigning by a lack of prominent national figures not preoccupied with their own reelection, but they have answered fire on occasion. Sargent Shriver labeled Agnew "this nation's great divider," and the venerable John McCormack, who is about to retire as'Speaker of the House, recently accused the Administration of "playing on people's fears and dodging the issues." Said McCormack: "In all of my experience in campaigns, I have never witnessed such wholesale, patently contrived efforts to smear an entire party as that practiced by the Republicans...