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There were two immediate predictions as to the consequences: 1) that the uproar would jeopardize Frankie's friendship with his chief political patron, Vice President Spiro Agnew; 2) that the friendship might jeopardize Agnew's ties with his own patron, Richard Nixon...
...unite against his policy a startlingly broad coalition of interest groups. They range from the unemployed poor to school librarians, and from farmers to executives of construction firms that will get less business building subsidized housing and hospitals. Members of the Senate Republican Policy Committee met with Vice President Agnew last week and voiced loud protests against the withholding of funds for programs that benefit the traditionally Republican farmers...
...searching for a reason for the outburst, Cheshire could think of no recent cause. Only a year ago, when Sinatra was entertaining at an Agnew party, she had asked him: "Do you think your Mafia ties might prove embarrassing to the Vice President?" At that time, Sinatra replied, "Naw, I don't worry about anything like that." But these things rankle-particularly when a man who has friends in the mob keeps trying to make friends in the White House...
...lifelong Democrat, Sinatra did not give up. In 1968 he volunteered to campaign for Hubert Humphrey, but his hopes there never materialized. Annoyed, Sinatra turned to the Republicans and campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1970. Through Reagan's graces Sinatra came to know Spiro Agnew. Cordial friends ever since, Agnew frequently spends long weekends at Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. The Vice President honored Sinatra in January 1971 by flying to Palm Springs for the dedication of the Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Center, Sinatra's monument to his father. Later, while on a good-will...
Just what effect Sinatra's attack and Mrs. Cheshire's threatened law suit will have on the singer's friendship with Agnew is unsure. After a long, stiff silence, Agnew's press secretary Victor Gold offered a statement: "Maxine Cheshire has a carapace of an armadillo." Not everyone has friends like that...