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Violence is in the air. Agnew and his friends from the animal farm have stirred it up as much as possible. Nixon's speech shot down our feeble hopes and drew the battle lines, as it was surely intended to do. He defined anti-war protestors, in effect, as traitors to reason and the democratic processes of the greatest nation in the history of the world...
...Meanwhile, the offense began to make believers out of Spiro Agnew, a Labrador Retriever, and other noted spectators. Carlson combined with Mike Barrett to form a virtually unstoppable tandem behind the blocking of Tom Southwick and Mike Sylvester...
...surest sign of the presidential imprimatur is the fact that the White House has put no muzzle on the Vice President. In fact, said an Agnew aide, "We have a constituency of one to please and we wouldn't be doing this unless we were told to do so by the man." The aide said Nixon ordered Agnew to continue the assault. Agnew spent three days last week honing an anti-Moratorium address for a Republican fund-raising dinner in Harrisburg, Pa. Delivered before a highly partisan audience, Agnew's speech was a smashing success. In 26 minutes...
Rotten Apples. On the contrary, Agnew flailed away again at the peace drive. While he drew a fine line between those who led the Moratorium and those who merely participated in it, he brutally castigated politicians who supported M-day. Said he: "They are ideological eunuchs whose most comfortable position is straddling the ideological fence." With this indiscriminate indictment. Agnew condemned many of the nation's leading political figures, including several in the Republican Party...
Equally unsettling was the Vice President's attack on the more militant dissident leaders. Describing them as "parasites of passion," "merchants of hate" and "vultures," Agnew said: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel." He did not specify how this purge would be accomplished...