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Vice President Spiro Agnew packed up his clubs, bade farewell to Fellow Golfer Bob Hope in Palm Springs, and embarked upon an official good-will tour of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. In all, he will be out of the country for 32 days, longer than any Vice President since Richard Nixon...
...nations Agnew will visit during the trip abroad, his third since taking office, have, in the main, authoritarian governments. Most have no pressing problems with the U.S., or great influence in matters of international urgency. Only in South Korea, his first official stop, where Agnew last week represented President Nixon at the third inauguration of President Chung Hee Park, was there even notable ceremonial justification for his presence...
There are U.S.-Korean problems -withdrawal of U.S. troops and possible U.S. import quotas on Korean textiles, among others. But Agnew steered clear of any substantive discussions with President Park...
Coles records a lingering (and lately reinforced) populist disgruntlement with big business, as well as a sensible cynicism about the "selective sympathy" of liberals and radicals. Over the lunch pail they may sometimes sound (and know they sound) like Spiro Agnew or George Wallace, but they are aware that such politicians are mainly-perhaps only-concerned with getting their votes...
...left with a warm presidential handshake. With the White House and Holton refusing to discuss the urgent summons, politicians and reporters back in Richmond speculated that they had talked about the 1972 campaign in the South, even that Nixon might have offered Holton the vice-presidential nomination, replacing Spiro Agnew...