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...your seeming sophistication, you seem unaware of the attitudes of a majority of our generation. There are among us: pacifists who don't give a damn about ecology, right-wing hippies, speed-freak bigots, Agnew fans who want marijuana legalized, and crew-cut political radicals...
...Harold Hothan "jeered and booed" when the Czech waiter flashed a Nixon-Agnew button [Aug. 24]. To that waiter, a slave in a slave state, that button was a sacred symbol of free elections, free speech, free trade, free minds and private property. It was a symbol, to him, of life worth living. When Harold jeered that button, he jeered not Nixon and Agnew but the nation and the concept of America. The waiter literally risked his life to show Harold that button, and all he did was jeer at it and at him. Harold Hothan sickens...
...Optimism. A few days before Vice President Agnew's visit to Phnom-Penh, the U.S. announced an estimated $40 million program of military aid to Premier Lon Nol's government. Described by the State Department as "modest but meaningful," the program actually quadruples the present amount of U.S. aid. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, confirming what had long been accomplished fact, defined the use of American airpower in Cambodia well beyond its original limitation of hitting only at supply lines. The U.S. air mission there, he said, was "to destroy supplies and buildups, buildups of personnel as well...
...narcotics, NBC turned right around and asked him to appear in an antidrug episode of The Name of the Game. Thanks, said the President, but no thanks. Instead, Presidential Adviser Robert Finch, who once considered an acting career, starred in the segment. And waiting in the wings is Spiro Agnew. The Vice President will introduce Red Skelton's new fall show on NBC. Lest he carry this show-business gig too far, Agnew then nixed a Laugh-In stint-even though his boss did a turn with Rowan and Martin in pre-presidential days...
Secretary of Interior Walter J. Hickel is sporting, of all things, a Spiro Agnew watch-and word spread that it was a gift from the White House. Last week, though, the outspoken former Alaska Governor spiked the rumor. "First of all," he said at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, "they wouldn't spend that much money on me; and secondly, they only give watches to people who are retiring. I am not about to retire...