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...everything about the Nixon Administration enchants Shultz, but he generally keeps his doubts to himself. He is known to deplore what he considers to be the continuing divisive rhetoric of Vice President Agnew, and he has conceded that Nixon's decision to send U.S. troops into Cambodia alienated large numbers of the young. Nonetheless he defended that decision before students, professors and a meeting of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers last month in Atlantic City. The union men heard him out respectfully, but condemned the Cambodian action...
...readiness to exchange ideas should help soothe the temper of HEW, which employs many of Nixon's in-house dissenters. Those liberal dissenters are getting a Secretary cut from the same moderate-to-liberal mold as his predecessor. At the 1968 Miami convention that nominated Nixon and Agnew, Richardson's was one of the few dissenting shouts from the floor when it was moved that Agnew's nomination be made unanimous...
There was rhetoric on the other side as well. At West Point, Vice President Agnew growled about unspecified "criminal misfits" and "charlatans of peace"-two fresh phrases in his lengthening lexicon of epithets*-before he exhorted the cadets to take up the challenge of a "lonely and difficult war." Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans had an equally appreciative audience when he told Merchant Marine Academy graduates that "the destroyers of today will not survive any more than the witch burners of Colonial New England or the book burners of Hitler's Germany." At the Air Force Academy, Defense Secretary Melvin...
...Vice President and told him that some of his public utterances were "driving moderates into the arms of extremists." They said that among their temperate students there is a "widespread distrust of their Government, a mixture of fear and resentment toward America's leadership." They suggested that Agnew criticize violence in all quarters-hardhat right as well as student left-and that he generally tone down his language. Said the Vice President: "Maybe they've got a point...
...American Association of Museums is about as staid an organization as Spiro Agnew could wish, and for 64 years it has been meeting annually without notable incident. But this year's get-together was different...