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...term seems to include nearly all opposition on the Administration's left, particularly in Congress and on the campuses. The Vice President used the expression with relish at his first stop in Springfield, delighting his Republican audience. As he jetted on to Casper, Wyo., and San Diego, Agnew embroidered on the theme. He hit at "a disruptive radical and militant minority-the pampered prodigies of the radical-liberals in the U.S. Senate...
...confusion of political categories. Without question, some liberals have supported or at least been tolerant of some radical causes. But in rational political debate, words must be used precisely. Radicals, in today's lexicon, include bomb throwers and those committed to destroying American institutions. Liberals, often criticized by Agnew as being too soft, cannot by any stretch of definition be lumped in with violent extremists. Yet the Vice President does the trick with a flick of the hyphen...
...repeated and far more convincing Agnew point was that today's liberals have lost both their fire and their function and thus are no longer relevant to the workingman. He paid his respects to labor's past heroes. "The liberalism of the old elite was a venturesome and fighting philosophy-the vanguard political dogma of a Franklin Roosevelt, a Harry Truman, a John Kennedy. But you know and I know that the old fire-horses are long gone...
...defending Republican Senator Ralph Smith of Illinois against the challenge of Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, Agnew paid a rare Republican tribute to a Democratic machine politician. He noted that Stevenson had called the Chicago police "storm troopers in blue" for their part in the 1968 Democratic Convention riots. "The grave injustice done by that convention was not done to the demonstrators in the streets," Agnew said. "It was done to the good name of the great city of Chicago and its mayor, Richard J. Daley...
...Administration's campaign kick-off was a carefully coordinated case of Agnew hitting the low road and Nixon saying some of the same things, but on a higher plane of rhetoric. Thus Agnew accused the Democratic Congress of "featherbedding" and "monumental goldbricking" in holding up Administration bills. He charged that it was controlled by "big spenders" and "bitter men" who have "forfeited their mandate" to represent the workingman. Nixon issued a 20-page "call for cooperation" from the Congress, gently chiding the Hill for its failure to act on his programs. The watchword of his Administration, he insisted...