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...strident outburst was a physical assault on his campaign motorcade in San Jose, Calif., during the closing week of the campaign. It was an attack that came dangerously close to disaster, but it played perfectly into the President's political hands. Throughout the campaign, Nixon and Vice President Agnew have tried to win Republican votes through popular resentment against extremist-and sometimes not so extremist-dissidents. At times, small groups of hecklers were deliberately allowed into his audiences, just numerous and noisy enough to enable Nixon to score the points he wanted to make. In San Jose, however...
...strategy' " -and promising that "this Administration will appoint, and will see confirmed, a Southern strict constructionist on the Supreme Court." At a Navy League dinner in Manhattan, he fired an old-fashioned broadside at members of Congress who have become "viscerally antagonistic toward the whole defense complex." Said Agnew: "Deep down in their hearts is a feeling that international Communism is no longer really dangerous, at least not as dangerous as it used to be, so that America can safely dispense with expending major sums on modern armaments." It seemed a curious comment from a Vice President whose President...
...opening remarks Blatchford admitted that "Yeah, I was the guy that Spiro Agnew hit with a tennis ball...
Luckily for Nixon he got his incident without getting shot down from the roof of his car. He and Vice President Agnew proceeded to milk it for all it was worth over the weekend...
Meanwhile, in Belleville, Illinois, Agnew told Americans to vote for Republicans Senators so that the Administration would have the means to pass legislation that would separate the "misfits" and "garbage" from society. A comparison between this kind of rhetoric and the fascist appeals in Germany in the early thirties is more than a little instructive...