Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goodell's outspoken stand on the Vietnam war brought him considerable criticism from other Republicans, especially Vice-President Spiro Agnew. During the campaign, Agnew, who openly supported Buckley, called Goodell a "radical-liberal" and "the Christine Jorgenson of the Republican Party...
...general, the Massachusetts elections were conducted far from the Nixon-Agnew dominated national spotlight. Both White and Sargent ran what was more than one time termed long and lackluster campaigns, emphasizing state and local issues...
...summer, the Republican national committee refused to name Massachusetts as one of its 16 target districts-perhaps because of Senatorial candidate Spaulding's refusal to too the Nixon line on the war-and consequently no Republican money was sent into Boston for the Spaulding election campaign. Both Nixon and Agnew were asked not to campaign in the state...
...feared, liberals in New York split their votes between incumbent liberal Republican Charles Goodell and Democrat Richard Ottinger yesterday, there by handing a plurality to Conservative candidate James L. Buckley. Goodell had been strongly attacked by Agnew during the campaign-and the Administration made little secret of their preference for Buckley in the race. Projected returns around midnight predicted that Buckley would get 38 per cent to Ottinger's 37, with Goodell running a poor third...
Four sparsely populated Western states with Democratic Senators were the special targets of Nixon-Agnew assaults. In all four the voters returned the incumbents to office with convincing majorities. Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada, Sen. Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Sen. Gale McGee of Wyoming, and Sen. Frank Moss of Utah all won with better than 55 per cent...