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Even though the district is traditionally Republican, Studds supporters feel very strongly that he can put together the coalition needed to win. The district voted against Nixon-Agnew in 1968 (as did all other Massachusetts Districts) and the Studds people believe that Keith can be defeated, in part because of Nixon's weakness...
Does Vice President Agnew want to be President in 1976? "I don't think he has enough foresight to look to 1976," Senator Eugene McCarthy said Sunday night in Cambridge. "Maybe he's looking...
Unpleasant Reminder. For his part, Goodell has little to lose-and perhaps something to gain-from the Agnew attack. He met it head-on by claiming that Agnew was out to "purge" him. Said Goodell: "This is campaign season, and the Vice President is on the campaign trail. But let's not try to imply that people who disagree with the Administration on this or that issue are somehow like the people who 'trash' campuses and burn banks and blow up mathematics centers. That sort of rhetoric is an unpleasant reminder of the chilling political climate...
Assuming the underdog role in a state where Agnew is not particularly popular was a shrewd move. Goodell, who in the last two years has earned a national reputation as a leading Administration critic of the war, is seeking election to a full term. He is beset by a strong Democratic candidate in Richard Ottinger, the Buckley candidacy and defections in Republican ranks because of his liberal stance. While he has been careful not to attack the President personally during the campaign, he is presenting himself as an independent, principled Republican who will not bow to high-level pressure...
...Baby. In the Administration and on Capitol Hill, response was swift. Spiro Agnew asserted that "it's not our baby," and promised that "as long as Richard Nixon is President, Main Street is not going to turn into Smut Alley." Senator Thomas Dodd's Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency prepared to summon commission members for some sharp questioning about the panel's mandate. In the opinion of some angry Congressmen, the investigators had ignored their assigned tasks of defining obscenity and pornography, determining its effect on children, and proposing federal antismut laws. Other Congressmen began filling the hopper...