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...Agnew. The scheme is the brainchild of one of the Republicans' most successful votegetters among the young, Tennessee Senator William Brock. In his 1970 race against Albert Gore, Brock carried the youth vote by a 2-to-l margin, despite Gore's dovish stance on the Viet Nam War. Brock won on 15 college campuses, losing just one and tying Gore in another. He is co-chairman of the Congressional Advisory Council for the Youth Division, and his former campaign manager, Kenneth Rietz, 30, is director of the Youth Division. With Brock on the advisory committee...
...much visible support. The leading Republican conservatives have denounced him. Barry Goldwater called his candidacy a "threat to the entire party, the entire country, the entire free world and freedom itself." His most prominent backer is the National Review, which has been picking quarrels with Nixon for some time. Agnew was sent to New York to try to dissuade Publisher William Rusher and Editor William Buckley, but they stuck to their principles. Wrote Buckley: "Mr. Ashbrook's entry into the race is the expression of an élan vital in the conservative movement, which has been strangely muted during...
Meanwhile the rest of America goes homeless. Revel neglects the plurality that elected Nixon president. In Revel's context Spiro Agnew is kept busy fighting a rear guard action against the massmedia. The compulsion to split the country neatly into left and right also ignores the middle class and its love of the status quo. American is not, as he says, "composed of two antagonistic camps of approximately equal size." The nation holds a spectrum of ideologies. Even a division into three parts would be more valid...
...think you are wrong when you say that the Agnew Great Dane-hyena in Pogo wears the uniform of a Greek colonel. Look again, and you may find that his attire more closely resembles Nixon's little joke on us all: the new White House guard uniforms, which were introduced...
...words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none comes out!!" Pogo has been invaded in recent months by an odd beast, half Great Dane and half hyena, that looks and alliterates like Spiro T. Agnew, by a bulldog that might be taken for J. Edgar Hoover, and by a pipe-smoking, improbable baby eagle that might fool even Martha Mitchell into thinking she had seen John. This trio of animal crackers spends most of its time trying to decipher messages from an unseen chief...