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Smith refused to comment on LIFE'S charges for the present. The Justice Department issued a curt denial. But two former federal investigators who were involved in the cases supported LIFE'S story. One of the strongest denunciations came from Vice President Spiro Agnew. In Los Angeles for a press conference of high school journalists, Agnew declared, "I don't have a high respect for a magazine that has such a high gullibility quotient that they would publish the Clifford Irving story." LIFE, of course, never did publish the Irving story. Agnew added, "The best and most...
...some cases begging for them. Less committed to internal party reform, Republicans have not shown the same alacrity; but President Nixon, at least, is well aware of feminine voting power. His re-election campaign will include four regional women's meetings at which Pat Nixon, Mrs. Spiro T. Agnew or Mrs. Martha Mitchell will speak...
When the Spirit of '76 brought the President home last week, he was clearly euphoric. The festive atmosphere at Andrews Air Force Base -where Vice President Spiro Agnew headed the welcoming committee -more than made up for the tepid reception that greeted Nixon in Peking. While trumpets blared out Hail to the Chief, the plane taxied up to the edge of the crowd of cheering thousands, with the whole scene captured on television...
...display of parliamentary subtleties, the Senate took three tense votes on the Griffin amendment last week. Vice President Spiro Agnew even made a rare appearance in the presiding chair so that he could break any tie by voting for the Griffin proposal. He never got the chance. On the first two votes Griffin opponents defeated the amendment by a single vote on one tally and by a three-vote margin on a second...
Next day, when many assumed that the battle was over, Kansas Senator Robert Dole, chairman of the Republican National Committee, slyly offered an almost identical amendment. He again alerted Agnew to be on hand. "We had word," Dole explained later, "that Muskie had to leave, that McGovern had taken off. We thought we might just luck out." The Senate leaders, Democrat Mansfield and Pennsylvania Republican Hugh Scott, were battling hard for a less restrictive antibusing measure of their own. At the end of the roll call, the Dole amendment led, 40 to 37. Then stragglers walked dramatically into the chamber...