Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earn such kudos, Rockefeller has stumped the country in recent weeks as a gravel-voiced Spiro Agnew, bragging about New York's tough new drug law, decrying welfare cheaters, and heaping praise on Republican stalwarts. (In Arizona, he paid effusive tribute to Barry Goldwater. Apparently, ambition heals all wounds...
...Rocky paid glowing tribute to every politician in the room: "I had the pleasure of standing next to Dave Germain, during the reception . . . Also just a word to thank the Bishop Ryan High School chorus and Mrs. Koenig, who is their leader." A local Republican made the inevitable comparison: "Agnew once came out here and just stood around not shaking hands with anybody...
...States, congressmen protested, editorials condemned American support of the junta, and among others UAW president Leonard Woodcock said: "The power of the dictatorship has rested on the twin base of arms and credits, both supplied in abundance by the U.S. Its reputation was internationally vouched for by Spiro T. Agnew, the convicted tax-evader...
...support of the Nixon Administration was a matter of widespread debate in Athens in the days after the coup. Inevitably, perhaps, some Greeks whispered that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had engineered the whole thing. One particularly curious explanation: that the overthrow had something to do with avenging Spiro Agnew...
...Anthony Lukas expanded his compassionate description of the Greenwich Village counter-culture into Don't Shoot, We Are Your Children, a book which carefully portrayed the mood of the late sixties without departing into sycophancy or sensationalism. Lukas went to Baltimore for New Times in the wake of Spiro Agnew's resignation--although his brief, three-page report had some interesting background about the flourishing Maryland contracting industry which caused Agnew's downfall, it centered heavily around the proverbial scene at the local...