Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew's glib and misleading linkage of liberals with radicals, his equally glib identification of conservatism with the center has a clear meaning. It illustrates the fact that the battle is not only political but ideological. Political control of the Senate goes by party label. If a majority of Senators call themselves Republicans, that party controls the committees and thus the power to dam or release the flow of legislation, to schedule or not to schedule hearings, to act or not to act. With political control, conservatives and liberals of the same party are drawn together in common cause...
...chance, only one fully accredited Republican liberal?New York's Charles Goodell?is seeking re-election this year. Through Agnew, who has attacked Goodell and raised funds for his Conservative Party opponent, the President has made clear his willingness to sacrifice a card-carrying Republican for someone more ideologically in tune with the Administration. Apart from Goodell, the insistence on ideological purity has greater practical significance for the future. Such Republican liberals as Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield and Edward Brooke, whose terms expire in 1973, undoubtedly perceive the warning signal: if necessary, Nixon is prepared to sacrifice even Republican liberals...
...January, Goodell will be neither. Boxed in by liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger and Conservative Party Candidate James Buckley, Goodell is running third. His seat is one of four that the Republicans are in grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation. Goodell, said Agnew, was the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," a remark that evoked substantial revulsion and a demand for an apology from Miss...
...with the Administration, Goodell?and everyone else ?knew he did not mean Goodell. Months ago, Nixon reportedly told a Republican Senator: "I hope Ted leaves Charlie alone. He [Goodell] is a disaster, but he's our disaster. I told him to cool it." But no one believes that Agnew or Chotiner would act without at least a wink from the President...
Buckley the candidate softly rakes "the voices of doubt and despair," claims to rap with the Silent Majority, curries the hardhat vote and?essential to his Nixon-Agnew support?promises to vote with Republicans in organizing the Senate...