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Richard Milhous Nixon loves Spiro Theodore Agnew, warts and all. But why? With all his vituperative attacks on the Viet Nam Moratorium. Agnew has violated the President's Inauguration Day dictum to speak softly. He has incurred a bad press and shortened some congressional tempers. Certainly. But those who have been most offended are in the main liberals, who are down on the Administration anyway. As Republican National Committee Chairman Rogers Morton said: "I think he's helping us more than hurting...
...course, Nixon knows that Agnew is not perfect. The President privately admitted that he thought Agnew had used "clumsy language" in some of his speeches. Nixon is described as "mildly upset" with the Vice President for his address on Oct. 19 in New Orleans, in which Agnew called the Moratorium supporters an "effete corps of impudent snobs." But it was a mild pique, and Nixon went out of his way last week to praise Agnew publicly. Assessing Agnew's performance in office when they both appeared at a Republican National Committee conference, Nixon declared: "He's done...
...Muzzle. White House aides who had been deployed in the Midwest brought back glowing reports of the favorable reaction to Agnew's assaults on the peaceniks. Letters and telegrams flowed into the vice-presidential office at a ratio of 3 to 1 in favor of his statements. The Administration views Agnew as a valuable weapon in its continuing efforts to keep the South safe from George Wallace. Nixon's own speeches, of course, are muted in comparison with Agnew's, and if the contrast makes the President appear the cool-headed moderate-well, that's political...
...candor and the desire to let off steam-understandable in an energetic man with little else to do-are not the only explanation for Agnew's behavior. His demand that the Moratorium leaders repudiate Hanoi's endorsement of the movement, for instance, came immediately after a Nixon-Agnew meeting. While other Republican officials have spoken calmly and even sympathetically of the M-day dissenters, Agnew has been there to remind the Administration's harder-nosed constituents that Washington is not going soft. The precedent is almost too obvious. During the '50s, it was Vice President Nixon...
Skepticism about the reasons for the war has created a climate of tolerance for the dissenters whom Vice President Spiro Agnew attacked last week. Seventy percent of the leaders refused to buy the argument that opposition to the war is led by radicals who do not care what happens to the U.S. Forty-nine percent of the public went along with them...