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...Michael Barnes, D-Md., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, said the administration is "using red-baiting tactics like we haven't seen in this city since Spiro Agnew was vice president...
Falwell told reporters that he had long admired Marcos's benevolent rule. "This man has done more for freedom than Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew combined," he said while touring one of beautiful Manila's many prisons. When inmates at the correctional facility refused gifts of his newest album, "Falling Dominoes," Falwell attributed it to the international Communist conspiracy. But, he said, it was nothing to worry about. "Sure, there are troublemakers here, but we have them in the United States...
Carol Robinson of the advertising firm Agnew, Carter, and McCarthy, which promotes the circus's Boston shows, said that the animals parade every year simply to get from the train to the arena. This year, however, the firm decided to publicize the parade to attract a larger crowd...
...crusade seemed to be struggling in obscurity until he was hit with the Buchanan bombardment. The combative White House communications director responded to Cuomo first in a news conference and later in a letter to the New York Times. Wrote the publicist who used to feed Vice President Spiro Agnew some of his acid lines: "I never anticipated much in the way of decency or accuracy from the commentaries of Mario Cuomo...
Peale and Agnew had a point of sorts but the wrong villain. In the 1940s and 1950s an airy permissiveness arose that may have contributed to the great campus tantrums of the late 1960s. Says Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton of Harvard Medical School: "The parents I was taking care of in the '50s were terribly concerned that their children be pleased at all times. But that's not Ben's fault. If you look in the book, there's nothing permissive in there...