Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style politics has three basic ingredients: money, organization, and votes. This season the money and organization belong to the guys in the black hats. Nixon-Agnew and Co. have launched a frontal assault to wrest the third ingredient, votes, away from its traditional owner, the Democratic party. If they are successful it will mean a major swing to the right for the United States, with the precise results of that swing left to anyone's guess. One thing is clear, however; if the Nixon-Agnew candidates are successful, the results will not be very pleasant for the Vietnamese, black people...
...canvassers or volunteers, but as an issue. The deaths at Kent State, the wave of bombings, the Weatherman fall offensive have all provided grist for the conservative mill. All across the country liberal candidates are shying away from defending students. No one can really predict the effects of an Agnew tongue lashing on a candidate and liberals in general are taking no chances. Check out the store front office of Ted Kennedy in Boston if you don't believe...
...Adlai Stevenson III has been the favorite to win the seat held for 20 years by Everett Dirksen. His opponent, Republican Senator Ralph T. Smith, was appointed to fill the remainder of Dirksen's term and is still relatively unknown in the state. He is an employer of the Agnew style and has attacked Stevenson as a radical-liberal...
...Haynsworth and Carswell, as well as the ABM. He has opposed the war since the early days of the Johnson Administration. Predictably he is in trouble. His opponent, right-wing Republican Rep. Richard Roudebush, is a former national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and supports Nixon and Agnew about as much as anyone...
...this, however, the University must remain open. Agnew claims that the universities are "staging grounds" for violent revolutionaries. Sure they are, just as they're staging grounds for corporate executives. The universities must exist to focus and encourage radical thought, but they must not be turned from the staging area into a practice ground. Radical bombings and attacks on the University from within have just this effect. Attacks on the University will only prevent undergraduate instruction from continuing; the institutional structure itself won't be terribly bothered. Reaction and legislative restrictions will shut down the functioning of the University...