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...conscious vigor of Agnew's criticism [May 11] has expanded to include University of Michigan President Robben Fleming, along with other university presidents, student protesters, admission policies, parents who have read Dr. Spock and progressive preachers, not to mention any number of implied targets. All this under the guise of roasting marshmallows to give them tough coats. Perhaps in 1972, the marshmallows will have their own version of a roast...
Through Pat Ryan, his personal assistant, Hickel tried to set up an appointment with the President, He was turned down. Visibly distressed, he then visited Secretary of State William Rogers to discuss his feelings. Rogers, unhappy from the outset over the tone of Agnew's speechmaking. said that he agreed with Hickels sentiments. It was then that Hickel decided to write his letter. Though intended for the President's eyes only, it was leaked to the press by an Interior Department aide who feared that it would be buried in the White House file drawers forever...
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Reactionary as the thought may seem, words are still as powerful a force as ever, when they are cogently used. It was, after all, language alone that catapulted Spiro Agnew from a political nonentity to a national figure with an enthusiastic personal following. Agnew, to be sure, can be accused of appealing to the raw emotions of the body politic in his now-famous attacks on "effete snobs" and "tomentose exhibitionists." On the other hand, a protester would have a hard time telling the Vice President that mere speech is not capable of stirring people. Unwittingly, he has shown...
...long, one of the biggest-if not the best-noses in the history of Western art. The whole composition measures 190 ft. by 305 ft., set 400 ft. up in a carved-out area "larger than a football field." It was unveiled last week in the presence of Spiro Agnew (see THE NATION...