Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still smarting from Vice President Spiro Agnew's characterization of maverick Senator Charles Goodell as "the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," Christine nevertheless did her best to be ladylike. "No, I don't have one of those Agnew dart boards," the blonde pioneer of sex-switchery told an inquirer. "I think it's wrong and disrespectful to put any elected official on a dart board. But I think it's rather interesting that he says I'm in the public domain, but that he apparently considers himself out of the public domain, because...
MASSACHUSETTS: Hard times have fallen on the name Kennedy in the family's home state. With Chappaquiddick, Bobby Jr. getting busted for drugs, and Agnew getting 50 per cent approval in the state, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be hard pressed to equal his landslide victory...
...cannot figure out whether to go to the left to pick up disenchanted liberals or to the right for supporters of arch right winger Col. John McCarthy who lost the primary to Spaulding. Starting out as a strong Administration critic, Spaulding has retreated from his position since the Agnew attacks on Senator Goodell. The switch has not yet attracted the McCarthy voters, however, and may have wiped out any chance of Spaulding picking up the liberal support he must have to make a decent showing...
NEVADA: Democratic Senator Howard W. Cannon is a chief target of the Nixon-Agnew guns. Cannon has opened himself to the radicalliberal charge by voting against Haynsworth, Carswell, and the ABM as well as for the Cooper-Church Amendment. These votes took courage, for Nevada is a conservative state, and Cannon's opponent, Republican Rep. William Raggio, has made the most of them. Raggio is a strong law-and-order, victory-in-Vietnam man, and his election to the Senate would be a big boost to the Administration. Agnew has made several trips to the state to aid Raggio...
...race is rated a tossup, but Cannon has several plusses which could bring him victory. The two most important are his seniority (12 years in the Senate) and Nevada's traditional distrust of outsiders which may cause Agnew's efforts to backfire on the Republicans...