Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing you have got to do, you have got to maintain the Presidency out of this. I have got things to do for this country and I'm not going to have ?now this is personal. I sometimes feel like I'd like to resign. Let Agnew be President for a while. He'd love...
...outgoing panel members voted last week to recommend that the panel be dissolved. Jean Agnew, a graduate student in history and a member of the panel, said then that the vote was based on graduate student feeling that the panel served only to co-opt graduate student protest...
...really had to hand it to the old Nixon-Agnew campaign combination. They knew how to work the crowds. They gave the voters easy alternatives and let them take their pick--victory or defeat; law and order or mugging in the streets--an old, worn political trick, but they were cynical enough to know it could still work. Except, of course, in Massachusetts...
...four students "were killed" after National Guardsmen "were sent" on campus, suggesting that both events were acts of God which no one else could possibly be held responsible for. Similarly, the new grand jury naturally investigated the individual Guardsmen who fired shots, not the people--President Nixon, Spiro T. Agnew, Governor Rhodes--who made the shootings possible...
...same time Nixon and Agnew were telling the young men of this country to die cheerfully for Viet Nam, they both neglected to pay their income taxes, which would, at least in part, have helped support the war. Some patriotism. Some sense of sacrifice...