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Unleashing Agnew. All that activity last week underscored a basic political fact: 1970 is an election year and the stakes are high. Moving uncommonly early, candidates, self-proclaimed noncandidates and coy potential candidates are jockeying for position in the November elections that will serve as the first broad referendum on the Nixon Administration's policies. Republicans are even talking hopefully of seizing control of the Congress for the first time since 1954. But they need to gain an improbable 29 seats in the House to secure a majority; only seven in the Senate would give them...
...water. He has comforted Middle Americans with his gradualism on racial issues and tried to assuage their fear of street crimes with the tough-guy image of his Attorney General, John Mitchell. And he has turned a national joke into a potent political asset by unleashing Vice President Agnew...
When Richard Nixon puts that question to Spiro Agnew this week, the Vice President will be able to give a creditable reply. Returning from his 39,000-mile tour of eleven Asian and Pacific countries, Agnew can report that his first venture into geopolitics went without a major mishap. It was, as billed, a useful educational tour for the man who could some day become President...
...Again. Both Malaysia and Singapore, Agnew's next stops, are worried about their security after the British close their Singapore naval base in 1971. Agnew indicated that the U.S. would help bolster their regional defenses with American material assistance. Addressing a group of 400 Americans living in Singapore, he urged them to write friends and relatives back home explaining "what's actually going on in Asia and what the American presence means. I can say that," he added, "because I didn't understand it myself until I made this trip...
...major story was reassigned to cleaning records in the music library. A couple of weeks ago, on the air, an Air Force newscaster introducing a piece of analysis by Eric Sevareid wryly suggested that it was sufficiently after-the-fact to avoid "the wrath of Vice President Agnew." He found himself demoted to a production crew in Danang...