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...longtime enthusiast for and avid collector of wristwatches that are more than merely functional, I smiled to see Dr. Dougherty's new addition: the Spiro Agnew Original [July...
...camera, slides show statistics on interest rates and unemployment, with Richard Nixon smiling pleasantly against the background of the White House. A voice intones: "He's letting Agnew run wild . . . he said he had a secret plan...
...Spiro Agnew, the Administration's house curmudgeon, opened his office to newsmen and television cameras, beaming broadly as he gave his blessing to products meant to spoof him-Spiro Agnew T shirts, Spiro Agnew watches modeled on the Mickey Mouse design (TIME, July 6). Instead of fuming, Agnew co-opted the satire: advance payments and royalties from the manufacturers will go to a charity supporting American Indian children and to an organization of families of American servicemen taken prisoner or missing in Southeast Asia. "The real reason I'm here," Agnew joked on the Tonight Show, "is that...
Bellicose Face. As it turns out, Agnew has good reason to project a new image of mellowness. TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey, who has traveled widely around the U.S. in recent weeks, concludes that in many parts of the country even conservative Republicans, including numerous candidates who acknowledge that Agnew is a fantastically successful party fund raiser, openly express their view that any further extension of the Agnew polemics will hurt the party rather than help it. "There is now a widespread feeling," Gorey reports, "that no one is all right and no one all wrong. There is a new willingness...
...tour of Capitol Hill, Senator Hugh Scott reminded Charles that a Dolley Madison mirror hanging in Vice President Spiro Agnew's ceremonial office was from the days "when your ancestors burned the White House," and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond gave the prince his senatorial calling card. Anne perked up briefly to offer the undiplomatic, yet reasonable observation that the bald eagle was "rather a bad choice" as the American national symbol. The royal pair asked why it had been selected, and none of their escorts, who included House Speaker John McCormack and House Minority Leader Gerald Ford...