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...demonstrators were restrained in their actions by the knowledge that Pat Nixon was the target of the action, instead of her husband or the irascible Spiro Agnew. They were also determined to be peaceful so that the message of the demonstration--sign the peace agreement--was not lost in the fray of mans arrests...
...moment last week Richard Nixon reclaimed one of the old rhetorical battlegrounds that Spiro Agnew vacated recently when he assumed his loftier persona. In an address before the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, the President attacked "the so-called opinion leaders in this country." Specifically, Nixon was angry at "the leaders of the media, the presidents of our universities, professors and some of our top businessmen" for not supporting his bombing policies or his May 8 decision to mine Haiphong harbor...
...with power. What he cares about is money and military power, bucks and bombs." But it is an uphill battle. At the Polish-American Congress convention in Detroit this month, Shriver offered what he called a seven-point "Ethnic Magna Carta," but he received much less applause than Spiro Agnew, who simply reminded the audience how close the President felt to them. Agnew and Nixon received another kind of ethnic compliment in Chicago when Frank Sinatra once again emerged from retirement. Changing the lyrics of The Lady Is a Tramp, Sinatra crooned to a crowd...
...ever made personalities a campaign issue. There are his speeches on Vietnam in direct contradiction to the facts, his announcement that the invasion of Cambodia was not an "invasion," his interference in the trials of Calley and Manson, lies about the economy, and attempts to cover his and Agnew's bungling. A particularly gruesome moment resurrected from his California campaign has Nixon trying to establish credibility as a state-oriented candidate. "I am running," he declares assuringly, "for Governor of the United States...
Canvassing students is only one of the tasks of the Harvard-Radcliffe Students for the Re-election of the President. According to Bill Schuck 74 head of the organization, he has also led 35 Nixon-Agnew supporters in a Veteran's Day parade and attempted to attract prominent Republican speakers to Cambridge...