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October 22: Spiro Agnew followed Muskie into town. After passing through a crowd of student picketers outside the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, Agnew told his campaign workers that student dissent was the result of "a lack of contact between teachers and the industrial-business establishment...
...committee April 18, he said that the government was not equipped to "play cop by cutting off funds" to universities with disorders. In an article in the Washington Post May 8, David Broder said that Finch "disagrees with last week's tough denunciations of militant students by Vice President Agnew, Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and Justice Department aides." Broder said that Finch believes that setting up "the federal government as a regulatory agency would be a mistake...
...Agnew's Style. It was not Ellington's first contact with the White House. His father was a part-time butler in Harding's day, and in the past the Duke himself has been honored with membership on the National Arts Council. But it was by far his most pleasant experience with a President. Besides Nixon's Happy Birthday, played on the eagle-legged piano of the East Room stage, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew sat down to play two of Ellington's own compositions, Sophisticated Lady and In a Sentimental Mood, in a surprisingly...
They could, however, carry a tune, and rarely has so much talent worked for free and for fun. Mary Mayo and Joe Williams sang, and when Nixon and Agnew were not using it, the piano was rotated among Hank Jones, Dave Brubeck and Fatha Hines, who nearly sent its legs flying with a ripping rendition of Perdido. Best of all, perhaps, was the Duke's own improvisation of "something soft and gentle" on the name of Pat. Mrs. Nixon was enchanted...
...four-man presidential task force headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew hopes to answer these questions in a report that is scheduled to be issued on Sept. 1. Lee DuBridge, President Nixon's science adviser and a member of the group,* has promised a "balanced program." What that means is not certain, but for their part, NASA officials have let it be known that they will be quite content to settle for some sort of balance between the practical and the visionary. Last week, in a report from its own advisory committee on goals...