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...sentiment over Viet Nam. TIME deals with them both. Yet as the days went by, it became increasingly clear that the biggest, most intriguing news was the Nixon Administration's mounting counteroffensive against dissent in the U.S. The speech attacking the television networks by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, whom TIME discussed in last week's cover story, was only one broadside in a campaign directed from the White House and involving many members of the President's official family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...pull together the various elements of the story reported by TIME'S Washington and New York bureaus, Senior Editor Jason McManus assigned the lead article on the presidency to Associate Editor Keith Johnson and Researcher Mary Kelley. Associate Editor Lance Morrow and Researcher Michele Stephenson analyzed the Agnew speech itself, while Senior Editor Peter Martin and Associate Editor Richard Burgheim, usually in charge of the Television section, viewed the media in the light of the message. They were assisted by Contributing Editors William Doerner and Robert Hummerstone and Researchers Patricia Gordon. Gillian McManus and Georgia Harbison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...there we were. Laughing at Spiro Agnew and chanting. "All we are saying is give peace a chance." As if that were any less idiotic than Agnew's various oral commissions. If we couldn't define ourselves in terms of each other at least we could define ourselves in opposition to Agnew...

Author: By Jim Frosch, | Title: On the March Washington Blues | 11/19/1969 | See Source »

Placards and banners dominated the march. Signs were rife with references to Spiro Agnew and the Silent Majority: "Effetism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice." "Tyranny Has Always Depended On a Silent Majority." "Keep Spiro Agnew in the Silent Majority." and "What Plan, Mr. President?" Several people carried large NLF flags and red and black banners. Many other marchers carried small American flags...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: D. C. Protest Generally Peaceful; Over 250,000 Demand End To War | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

...rally began shortly after 4 p. m. when a coalition of the Yippies, the Weathermen, the Mad Dogs, and small anarchist groups from New York City gathered around huge papier mache figures of Spiro Agnew and other men in the government. A march led by red, blue and yellow Viet Cong flags began circling the Justice Department building from its front door on Constitution Ave. The group had a permit to rally from...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Police Tear Gas Routs Demonstrators In Skirmish at Department of Justice | 11/17/1969 | See Source »

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