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Rhodes-whom Vice President Spiro T. Agnew had earlier sought to dislodge from the Commission-said that he was disappointed by Pusey's testimony. "Harvard has gone through a lot of personal changes. I'm concerned that he did not seem aware of them," Rhodes said...
...Republican Party last week armed a Boeing 727 with the G.O.P.'s fastest-firing political weapon-Spiro Agnew-and launched it westward to strike at Democratic candidates in this fall's elections. The mission was the first of a series that will take the Vice President to most of the 35 states in which Senate seats are at stake...
...President himself provided explicit flight plans before Michelle Ann II (named for Agnew's granddaughter) took off. A 2½-hour White House meeting at which Nixon delivered a 90-minute monologue, was attended by Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow, Speechwriters William Safire and Patrick Buchanan and Political Advisers Harry Dent and Murray Chotiner. TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress reports the President's admonitions...
...take a hard line on social issues and to paint the Democratic Party as "the party of permissiveness." The Democrats are "way out on the left," he observed. "Keep them there." The main problem facing the Republicans is the state of the economy, and he urged that Agnew meet it by pinning a "big spender" label on the Democrats...
...Agnew heeded his boss well. Even before his jet was airborne, Agnew began assailing anti-Administration demonstrators. "The primary issue is whether public policy in the U.S. is to be made by elected officials or by people in the streets," he declared at National Airport. At Springfield, ILL., he criticized the "caterwauling critics in the Senate" who oppose the President's Viet Nam policy. They are part of a "misguided movement-an ultraliberalism that translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue...