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That, of course, was hyperbole-soon echoed by Vice President Agnew. He charged that "homefront snipers" had "falsely stereotyped" U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam as "drug addicts and coldblooded criminals." Agnew also argued that "the rather abnormal fears and the conditions in a military operation are not subject to Monday-morning quarterback judgment by someone sitting comfortably in an office in Washington." Applied to Galley, that principle ignores the fact that the jurors who convicted Galley had all served in combat...
...from crashing. Their head count showed 49 Senators against the plane, 47 for it, two absent and two wavering: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. If Richard Nixon could land those two Republicans, the SST might yet take off. Vice President Spiro Agnew stood ready to cast a tie-breaking vote to continue the aircraft's funding...
...brief peace that broke out after the election between Spiro Agnew and TV is over. The war grew hot again last week when CBS, for the second time in four weeks, aired the Vice President's least favorite documentary of the year, The Selling of the Pentagon. One purpose was to give foes of the program a chance to be seen and heard; the documentary itself was followed by previously taped attacks from Agnew and others. The firepower being employed by both sides reflected the vital interests involved: the reputation of the military during an unpopular...
...notions, the right of free speech. The same way religious bigots in this country have denied freedom of religion by bombing churches, and Richard Daley denied right of assembly and invited the 1968 Chicago riots by refusing to give war protesters a meeting place. And just as Vice President Agnew, who, so obviously anxious to please a boss so often burned by newsmen, would like to amend so called "abuses" of freedom of the press...
...Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.) lacks the national recognition required. "McCloskey can do it. You hear of people when they take on the President. If the campaign is conducted on an intelligent level smallness will not be an issue." Lowenstein also said that Nixon cannot save himself by dumping Agnew and running with a liberal Vice-President: "It would just make it clear that he is utterly uninterested in the kind of problems that the people are interested in. Besides, the President runs the country, not the Vice-President...