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...think we can safely say that the only consistent thing about Senator McGovern is his consistent inconsistency."-Spiro Agnew...
...What really makes my heart bleed is that these bleeding hearts don't have any sympathy for the people that stand in the South Vietnamese marketplace when rockets were deliberately aimed at them."-Agnew...
...guess we've got to just accept the fact that McGovern doesn't have a plan for America. All that the fractional and truncated plans he offers seem to do is make him very popular in some sectors in North Viet Nam."-Agnew...
News broadcasts of national affairs, which seem to have been a particular irritant to the White House, will be minimized under Loomis' guidelines. In a near-perfect echo of Vice President Agnew, he is particularly opposed to a newsman's coming on after a televised speech to offer his commentary on what has just been said. "Frankly," he says, "I think 'instant analysis' is lousy because the commentator who is sitting there hasn't had a chance to think." He is not opposed, however, to local stations airing local controversies...
...hard, and with Nixon stumping for him, Riegle won the seat. But taking to heart the bromides of "conscientious representation" and "moral leadership", Riegle lobbied for change in a party too rigid and regressive to accomodate him. His disaffection dated from the 1968 Republican Convention's nomination of Spiro Agnew. The Michigan delegation tried to get John Lindsay, then George Romney, to make a floor fight. The rest is history; Romney received virtually no support and Lindsay wound up, to his everlasting regret, seconding Agnew's nomination...