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...failings, to place blame on extenuating circumstances, bad information furnished by sly enemies, betrayal by subordinates or former friends"). Champion in this category is the well-known loser of the 1962 California gubernatorial race: "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more." Another master rhetorician, Spiro Agnew, has achieved signal results through oxymoron ("a figure designed to convey a truth by linking terms or phrases that are contradictory"). Example: "Protest is every citizen's right, but that does not ensure that every protest is right...
...nation is just beginning to collect its wits after the last campaigns, but the pollsters, always looking onward and upward, have already zeroed in on 1976. Two days after the election Louis Harris produced a trial heat that showed Ted Kennedy running ahead of Spiro Agnew in the presidential sweepstakes 51% to 43%. The pollsters, like journalists, are just doing their job of course, but presidential campaigns are already too long. It is a bit depressing to begin them four years in advance...
...Unlike their colleagues of the written word, cartoonists found the campaign an easy mark. The Denver Post's Oliphant was consistently on target, and that target was Nixon?Nixon grimly outfitting Agnew with a fright wig and electric guitar for the benefit of the 18-year-old voters, Nixon attacked by creeping "Watergate bugs." Don Hesse of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reserved much of his fire for McGovern's foot-in-mouth campaign statements and woeful showing in the polls; a characteristic Hesse offering shows McGovern, in tattered football gear, telling a dispirited huddle, "Cheer up?...
...more on its mind than mere competition. Four days before the election, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers struck the network, blacking out three N.F.L. football games and an important Face the Nation broadcast (guests: George McGovern and Spiro Agnew), and threatening to obliterate election coverage. Fearing labor troubles at the worst of all possible times, Jean Westwood, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asked CBS to keep away from any Democratic functions; several candidates also gave excellent imitations of persons badly frightened by a picket line. CBS got the message and canceled its "remote" pickups from some 20 locations...
Like Nixon, Brooke has a strong sense of history. Being the first black President of the United States would rank high in any encyclopedia, but Brooke will have to fight Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, and possibly Sea. Charles H. Percy (R III.) or renegade Democrat John B. Connolly for the 1976 GOP nomination...