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What do we have-Nixon prancing round the country while kids in the capital city are being teargassed. What do we have-19th century Agnew pontificating somewhere while long-haired youths are being herded into compounds...
Last Tuesday night, four days after the first anniversary of the murders at Jackson State, Vice President Agnew addressed a $100-a-plate Republican dinner in Jackson. Speaking "in the heartland of the old Confederacy... as an American who loves and would preserve our country's free institutions-to his fellow Americans who love and would preserve our country's free institutions" from "the opportunism of the new demagogues and actions of the New Left street gangs," Agnew began his speech by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen: It's good to be back in Jackson." Much was said in the twenty...
WORD CAME from Washington two weeks ago that President Nixon is working out a new "Southern strategy" in which Treasury Secretary John Connally will replace Spiro Agnew as Nixon's running mate in 1972. But the news caused only a mild wave of feigned surprise among Connally's fellow Texans. Indeed, since Connally moved into Nixon's Republican Cabinet in December, they have come to expect actions atypical of a hardened party man from their ambitious Democratic ex-governor...
Nixon may have gained even more than this in Connally-Democratic planners see Connally as the logical replacement for Agnew, who, they say, is now a liability. And if, as they maintain, Nixon is manning a Southern strategy for 1972, Connally is just the forceful personage to pull it off. Already Connally has begun attacking Democratic Presidential hopefuls, and Nixon has hinted at his new strategy (according to the Democrats, at least) by ordering a Federal grand-jury inquiry into George Wallace's campaign finances for his recent bid for Alabama's governorship...
...library will be formally dedicated May 22 in the finest Johnson tradition with 2,400 guests due to watch the ribbon cutting, then file into Memorial Stadium for a barbecue. Invited guests include President Nixon and Vice President Agnew, but not War Critic, Senator William Fulbright, or Former Press Secretary, George Reedy, whose book The Twilight of the Presidency reportedly offended L.BJ. Lyndon Johnson may belong to history, but some grudges apparently...