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...detractors often accuse Vice President Spiro Agnew of having an instinct for the jugular. Actually, Agnew aims slightly higher. During the Bob Hope Desert Classic three months ago, he hit a drive that bounced off the head of Golf Pro Doug Sanders. Last week the game was tennis. The Vice President and Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford were paired for the Administration in a doubles match against a congressional team of New York Senator Jacob Javits and Connecticut Congressman Lowell Weicker. Blatchford stood poised in the forecourt, waiting for the Vice President's serve. It arrived−bouncing...
...home, the modulated tone predominated. Spiro Agnew was playing his own close game. He spent last week almost silently, though he promised to make no "unilateral withdrawal" from the verbal battlefield. A number of Cabinet members continued to take relatively conciliatory lines toward the opposition. Attorney General John Mitchell told a group of Philadelphia public-and parochial-school pupils that "unrest represents dissent, and dissent is a good thing because it brings change in our society. But it must be done in an attitude of respect for the rights of others." But in talking to some Duke University students, Mitchell...
Cool It, Wally. In private conversation, John Ehrlichman and Bob Haldeman, two of the White House staffers closest to Nixon, were taking the pre-Kent State line: Agnew has the right idea, the campuses are out of control; Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel is merely frustrated about his department programs. Hickel had written his now famous letter to the President the week before; last week, on CBS's Sixty Minutes, he explained that his efforts to see Nixon after writing the letter had been turned aside by a White House aide who dismissed the Kent State protests with...
...note of hardhat solidarity with the nation's rulers was sounded often. WE SUPPORT NIXON AND AGNEW, One sign read; GOD BLESS THE ESTABLISHMENT. The strange bedfellowship was not lost on Peter Brennan. head of Greater New York's Building and Construction Trades Council. "We're supporting the President and the country," said Brennan, "not because he's for labor, because he isn't, but because he's our President, and we're hoping that he's right." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany drew a similar distinction: he backed Nixon on Cambodia...
...National Democratic Party, which advocated "security through law and order." Franz-Josef Strauss, a leader of the opposition Christian Democrats, has delighted audiences in his native Bavaria by attacking the "animal students," and he has been heard to observe that European politicians have a lot to learn from Spiro Agnew. But outside conservative Bavaria, Strauss's approach has met with little success. Another measure of the country's relaxed approach to the issue is the fact that West Germany's Bundesrat only lasl week gave final approval to a new law aimed at preventing the police from...