Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening remarks Blatchford admitted that "Yeah, I was the guy that Spiro Agnew hit with a tennis ball...
Luckily for Nixon he got his incident without getting shot down from the roof of his car. He and Vice President Agnew proceeded to milk it for all it was worth over the weekend...
Meanwhile, in Belleville, Illinois, Agnew told Americans to vote for Republicans Senators so that the Administration would have the means to pass legislation that would separate the "misfits" and "garbage" from society. A comparison between this kind of rhetoric and the fascist appeals in Germany in the early thirties is more than a little instructive...
...York, most non-Republicans cast their votes for both Charles E. Goodell, the liberal Republican incumbent whom Agnew had blasted as "the Christene Jorgenson" of the party, and Democrat Rep. Richard L. Ottinger. Conservative James L. Buckley, who was supported by the Administration, won with only 38 per cent of the vote...
Despite the traditional Republicans complexion of these states and their votes for President Nixon in 1968, the Nixon-Agnew journeys into the West failed to sway the electorate who saw them as outsiders trying to influence local politics...