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...were berating the Democrats about a curious issue, one rarely if ever raised in a presidential election. "Dividing Americans into quotas is totally alien to the American tradition," declared President Nixon. "The way to end discrimination against some is not to begin discrimination against others." Contended Vice President Spiro Agnew: "A quota system, regardless of its avowed intent, has no place in a free society." It would, he said, "Push America backward, back into the failures of a bygone era of narrow-minded prejudices and internecine conflicts...
Other examinations into the wheat deal are still in progress, however. Vice President Spiro Agnew last week announced that the FBI was investigating whether any large U.S. exporters had made illegal profits in the deal. That surprising concession led newsmen to check the FBI, where they were told no such probe had been directed. One day later, the FBI did get such an order from the Justice Department, creating a debate over whether this was done only because Agnew had mistakenly said it was under way or whether Agnew had merely misunderstood the timing. The Commodity Exchange Administration...
George McGovern, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew have all revealed their financial worth. Last week it was Sargent Shriver's turn, and it proved to be the most surprising disclosure to date. Shriver, married to a Kennedy millionairess, turned out to be the poorest of the quartet of main political contenders. He put his net worth at the round figure...
...bringing him to the people. But what does one hear from these men and women (females who are either family members or hold the crusading title, "Consumer Affairs Adviser?") Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz accuses McGovern of lying about the U.S.-Soviet Grain Deal, and days later Spiro Agnew announces an FBI investigation on the same topic (centering around the original charges made by McGovern). John Connally talks campaign money and Democrats-for-Nixon, but nothing else. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney travels to Pennsylvania and engages in political mud-slinging with Democratic Governor Milton Shapp. Secretary...
...Thus Agnew, on his salary of $62,500 a year and $10,000 for expenses has in 3½ years increased his net worth by $87,166, to a total of $198,250. Clearly, the old saw that men leave the White House poorer than they come in is no longer true...