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Boeing 727 loaded with communications gear for instant contact with the White House, and it is the Nixon battle plan for the congressional elections that Agnew will be carrying with him. How he executes the plan may well determine the tone of the campaign. The swing is clearly aimed at altering the makeup of the Senate and will take Agnew to 13 Western, Midwestern and border states, where he is most effective...
...Agnew himself was a major contributor to the domestic controversy last week with a harsh personal attack on two leading Senate doves. Appearing before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Miami Beach, he went after Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield and South Dakota Democrat George S. McGovern, two of the authors of a Senate measure that would end all American combat operations in South Viet Nam by Dec. 31, 1970. Their plan, Agnew said, is a blueprint for disaster and humiliation, "chaos and Communism." He added: "One wonders if they really give a damn." In a Senate speech the next...
Later in the week, Agnew was again on display in his more familiar domestic role, assailing political foes without the encumbrances imposed by dealing with foreign allies. In a Los Angeles fund-raising speech, nominally in praise of Senator George Murphy, the hard-pressed Republican incumbent, Agnew opened a rough counterattack on the politically dangerous economic issue. The Democrats, he said, would spend the country into bankruptcy and socialism if given half a chance. As evidence, he noted that Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien-a frequent critic of Nixon on the economy -had presided over a Wall Street...
Freewheeling. Agnew may have been speaking for himself in Los Angeles, but in Miami Beach it was the Administration talking. The prose came from Nixon's hardest-hitting speechwriter, Pat Buchanan. He will soon have plenty of opportunity to keep punching. On Sept. 10, when the political season gets going in earnest, Buchanan will be in the Agnew entourage as the Vice President begins his first extended campaign foray. Also going along, in addition to Agnew's own men, will be Bryce Harlow, a Nixon Counsellor with Cabinet rank who will serve as top contact with the White...
...each stop, the schedulers have sought out "media zones"-cities where Agnew and the Republican congressional candidates can get maximum television and statewide newspaper coverage. The preliminary itinerary includes Wyoming, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Michigan, Wisconsin, both Dakotas, Indiana, Illinois, Utah, Tennessee and Kentucky...