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...same ones who are saying that Carswell won't make a good Justice said that Agnew wouldn't make a good Vice President...
...Nixon during the 1968 campaign, lowered that esteem. To be caught in a continuing election-year crossfire can only make its position more vulnerable. A number of conservatives have been talking about impeaching William O. Douglas for ideas that many regard as radical. Though impeachment is a congressional prerogative, Agnew in the CBS interview last week tied the rejection of Carswell and Haynsworth to Douglas' fitness. He suggested that "we take a look" at Douglas' views and then "see whether they are compatible with the position he holds...
Those remarks, coupled with Agnew's attempt to blame the Senate votes on "the liberal media" and "organized labor and civil rights activists," have an ominous ring, just as the President's statement does. The words not only may foreshadow a more abrasive campaign this year than might otherwise have been expected, but represent a failure by progressive elements within the Administration to hold ground against the steadily growing influence of what might be called the Mitchell-Agnew axis...
...results of a national Peter Principle poll conducted at 15 college stores across the country gave top incompetence honors to Agnew, with Nixon a close second...
Thirty-three per cent of the Coop customers answering the poll chose Nixon as the employee best exemplifying the Peter Principle. Spiro T. Agnew was second with 24 per cent of the vote...