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Forage Out. Nixon was "relaxed" about the Rhodes incident, an aide says, and by all accounts the relationship between himself and Agnew remains solid...
...White House source insists that "there isn't any direct rein" on Agnew. The closest thing to any sort of curbing came when Nixon obliquely suggested to Agnew that he broaden his topics beyond dissent and the media. Nixon had his own speechwriters send Agnew some material on foreign policy, the welfare program and postal reform; Agnew was duly heard from in public on all three subjects...
Nixon knows only too well the uses of the vice presidency, and he lets Agnew do for him what he himself did for Dwight Eisenhower. "My political function," Agnew says, "is to forage out in advance of existing policies and generally to project the philosophy of the Administration." The personal equation helps. "We have a similar background," Agnew observes. "I can easily identify. I have not yet misconstrued the President's intentions. Of course, this is a high-risk activity, though I haven't yet fallen off the bridge...
Always His. The pithies and pungents that have kept Agnew on the Nixon bridge are largely his own. Mrs. Cynthia Rosenwald, a Baltimorean who wrote the drafts of many Agnew speeches until she quit recently for family reasons, says modestly and accurately: "I did the part where the audience went to sleep. The really great lines were always his." Agnew, who sometimes uses speeches written by the White House staff, acquired a new speechwriter last week. He is Johann C. Helms, 29, a recent Harvard Ph.D. who gained national attention last summer when he blistered Harvard's treatment...
Helms made his debut last week by working on Agnew's speech for a Republican dinner in Cleveland, which grossed more than $325,000. Since the New Orleans opus in October, an aide reports, the Vice President has become "a very hot item." Just in the past five months, he has been the guest of honor at galas that have earned some $3,000,000 for the G.O.P...