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...amicable. March routes were quickly granted, and the old tactic of drawing a wagon train of protective buses around the White House has been scrapped as poor public relations, and because the Government expects fewer protesters in this quieter time. The cooling of America has even extended to Spiro Agnew. In his capacity as Senate president, Agnew granted permission for the demonstrators to assemble at the Capitol grounds, the first time a large group of protesters has been officially allowed to gather on the lawn of Capitol Hill. The main events scheduled for the three weeks of protest...
Redden, Pecket, Chotner, Kuykendahl, and Crazy Chris rose altogether and headed off to find Agnew...
...continuing cut and thrust over CBS's The Selling of the Pentagon last week got closer to the matter of "cut and paste" in Vice President Spiro Agnew's phrase. Representative F. Edward Hébert, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, filed an official complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that the documentary's producers misleadingly edited film in order to disparage the Pentagon's publicity effort (TIME, April 5). Representative Harley Staggers not only complained to the FCC but also threatened to open an inquiry by his Special Subcommittee on Investigations...
...separate declarations-out of sequence. The Pentagon claimed that the opening sentence came from page 55 of the colonel's prepared text, the second sentence from page 36, the third and fourth from 48, the fifth from 73, and the sixth from 88. In the rearrangement, Agnew contended, the opinions coming out of the colonel's mouth are actually quotations from Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma...
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said last week that if all American troops were immediately withdrawn from Vietnam, "it would be followed by a wave of far right, irresponsible sentiment" potentially more harmful "than any of the leftwing excesses that are taking place today...