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Trailing Vice President Agnew and his small army of security agents, John Stacks noted that in Phoenix ever-vigilant Secret Service men carefully ignored some reporters' vice-presidential credentials and locked them out of the hall. Local police tended to reject all credentials-"except," says Stacks, "a ticket to whatever $100-a-plate function was taking place...
...Cover: Cartoon in watercolor with ink, by Mort Drucker, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine. For his first TIME cover, Drucker portrays the G.O.P.'s King Richard (1) with his trusty knight errant, Sir Spiro the Agnew (2). In New York, wearing Spiro's livery, James Buckley (3) joins Richard Ottinger (4) in assailing Charles Goodell (5), who already feels the weight of Sir Spiro's spiked mace. In the heartland of the realm, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio (6) is threatened by the ax of Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims...
...Agnew's glib and misleading linkage of liberals with radicals, his equally glib identification of conservatism with the center has a clear meaning. It illustrates the fact that the battle is not only political but ideological. Political control of the Senate goes by party label. If a majority of Senators call themselves Republicans, that party controls the committees and thus the power to dam or release the flow of legislation, to schedule or not to schedule hearings, to act or not to act. With political control, conservatives and liberals of the same party are drawn together in common cause...
...chance, only one fully accredited Republican liberal?New York's Charles Goodell?is seeking re-election this year. Through Agnew, who has attacked Goodell and raised funds for his Conservative Party opponent, the President has made clear his willingness to sacrifice a card-carrying Republican for someone more ideologically in tune with the Administration. Apart from Goodell, the insistence on ideological purity has greater practical significance for the future. Such Republican liberals as Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield and Edward Brooke, whose terms expire in 1973, undoubtedly perceive the warning signal: if necessary, Nixon is prepared to sacrifice even Republican liberals...
...House to oppose one of the chief targets of Agnewian attacks. Tydings is rated high on the White House target list, and Beall will not lack support, financial and otherwise, from the Administration. Beall is running a classic middle-of-the-road, low profile campaign. He has refused Agnew's direct help; he supports the Nixon Indochina policy, and he opposes gun control...