Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the campaign, Nixon and Vice-President Agnew have stressed "law and order" issues-attempting to link so-called "radiclib" Democratic candidates with crime and student protests. Meanwhile, Democrats have been blaming the sagging economy on Republican fiscal policies...
Over the weekend, the President has attempted to capitalize on this incident in his speeches and political broadcasts. Vice-President Agnew has suggested that voting for Republican Senatorial candidates will give the White House a mandate for separating the protestors, whom he called "garbage," from society...
...York, where Agnew's attacks on incumbent liberal Republican Charles Goodell have split the liberal vote between him and Democrat Richard Ottinger, possibly enabling Conservative James Buckley...
Unfree Enterprise. It is not difficult to predict the outrage that Wills' book will detonate in Spiro Agnew-to say nothing of Nixon himself. Wills attacks ad hominem and sometimes quite unfairly-even granting the license of political satire. In one unpleasant lapse, for example, he describes Pat and Dick Nixon getting married: "The serious young man, son of a Quaker saint, docilely lines up at the marriage mart, where all the gooiest extras-orange blossoms, 'O Promise Me,' illusion veils -cover the emptiness of the transaction." It is both Wills' method and mistake to insert...
...SPIRO AGNEW. He "has a neckless, lidded flow to him, with wrap-around hair, a tubular perfection to his suits or golf outfits, quiet, burbling oratory. Subaquatic. He was almost out of sight by campaign's end; but a good sonar system could hear him burrowing ahead, on course...