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...does not have to be an effete snob, a nattering nabob, or even a Democrat to be thoroughly offended by the contrived, consciously catchy mixed metaphors daily being flung at us by Spiro Agnew [Sept. 21]. One gets the impression that this buffoon is just discovering his power to appeal to people's prejudices for his own purposes. Probably Agnew has already planned his first post-V.P. book: Selected Smashing Speeches by the Sensation of the '70s. One suspects that he is also running for the title: Most Vocal and Vituperative Veep of the Century...
...Agnew's acerbic animadversions affront, antagonize and alienate attentive Americans...
...Agnew's alliterative aphorisms, although apparently arousing activists' acrimony, are all able and acerbatingly...
...Nixon Administration would handle its most rebellious Republican Senator, Charles Goodell of New York, has been one of the fall's more fascinating guessing games. Last week Spiro Agnew provided the answer: the quiet-spoken Goodell would be treated like the meanest of Democrats...
...Agnew had been hinting for some time that there is a Republican among the Senate Radical-Liberals, the villains of his political set piece. He finally named Goodell an R.L. during an interview in North Dakota, declaring that the New Yorker had "left his party" by opposing President Nixon on Viet Nam, economic policy and law-and-order issues. Agnew planned to come to New York this week to address a group of conservative political contributors who are hardly likely to number Goodell among their beneficiaries. Agnew's appearance will seem to many politicians to be a frank pitch...