Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew berated the head of the Legal Service Program over a suit brought by a local agency against the city of Camden, N.J., to halt construction work on a number of urban renewal projects. Agnew criticized the right of poor people to use OEO-paid lawyers to sue elected officials...
...Spiro Agnew (powerful) accepts bribes while lecturing the nation on morality. Punishment: loss...
Ronald V. Dellums, 38. Running for Congress in 1970, Berkeley City Councilman Dellums won votes for his antiwar stand and picked up another bundle when Spiro Agnew called him a "radical extremist." "If being an advocate of peace, justice and humanity toward all human beings is radical," he responded, "then I am a radical." Completing his second term and probably en route to a third as Democratic Congressman from California's Eighth District, Dellums still leans far to the left; he was one of only eight House members to earn a perfect score in the latest rating...
...home, even before Viet Nam many newsmen were already emotionally committed to the civil rights movement. George Wallace foreshadowed one of the Spiro Agnew themes as he attacked the Northern liberal press for meddling in the South. As racial tension spread, whites in other regions who felt threatened by minority-group pressure also came to resent the press's role...
...considerable admiration during his first term. Even the cartoonist Herblock, long one of Nixon's cruelest antagonists, observed the traditional honeymoon accorded new Presidents by giving the man a decent shave. Nixon hardly reciprocated. He installed an arrogant press secretary who treated the press shabbily. He dispatched Spiro Agnew and other sappers to harass the enemy. Aides like Clay Whitehead and Charles Colson sought to stifle network commentary as unfair...