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Aside from his current Asian trip, Agnew has all but abandoned nonpolitical chores in Washington. He largely avoids the Senate these days. Last spring he was publicized as the chairman of the Nixon Cabinet committee for desegregation of schools, but he has missed its last seven meetings. He is Nixon's chief liaison with state governments, but did not attend the last Governors Conference. Soon, however, he will be seeing many of the Governors, as well as Senators, in the more combative forum of the fall campaign...
...Bibliophile. Examination of the daily news summary tends to substantiate the staff's contention that it gives the President-referred to as RN in the digest-the bitter with the sweet. Last week, for instance, it contained the caustic appraisals of Vice President Spiro Agnew that came in response to Agnew's attack on the McGovern-Hatfield end-the-war amendment. It also took note of Senator Edward Kennedy's statement that he was "shocked and disappointed" by the Nixon decision to retain quotas on oil imports...
Currently there is S.I. Hayakawa, "the nononsense, gutful chief of San Francisco State College." A Maury editorial this month urged Hayakawa's appointment as president of Harvard to "fumigate the campus Commies and anarchists." There is Spiro Agnew, in whom Maury perhaps sees something of himself. "I admire a fella," he told a recent visitor to his office, "who stands up on his feet and says what he thinks in words everybody can understand." But above all there is Richard Nixon, who, Maury feels, was "called to his exalted office by the Lord" as well as by the voters...
...quotable statements all qualify him as the commission's most controversial and audible member. He began filling that distinction right from the start by suggesting that deaths on the campus could be linked to White House criticism of students. For that Rhodes drew the wrath of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who called?vainly ?for Rhodes' resignation just three days after his appointment...
...forthrightness did not sit well with Vice President Agnew or even, at first, with members of his own commission. But they have listened to his ideas. What is more, he is ready?often, it seems, before he is asked?to counsel the White House on anything he believes germane to the problems of American youth, from the legalization of marijuana to the war in Viet...