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...that makes no differences; as a shocker, the word is dying. I haven't yet run across it in the Ladies' Home Journal, but then I don't read that magazine every month either. We may as well face reality. "Fuck," like "Agnew," is becoming a household word...
...Post hired him away from the then dying Saturday Evening Post last year, Oberdorfer, 37, writes a perceptive and critical weekly column. He also covers breaking news. He was one of the first reporters to convey Nixon's style of operation, probe the efforts to change Spiro Agnew's image and note Senator Strom Thurmond's lack of power in the new Administration. A somewhat stuffy writer, Oberdorfer has nevertheless conveyed his impatience with the slow pace of Government under Nixon. As the headline on one of his columns gibed, he also feels that "Nixon...
With the Tour. Agnew talked about the prestige of having his own plane ("It's Air Force 13, and it's a glider"), of having access to the White House at any time ("I come in the front door -with the regular tour.") and his thor ough policy briefings ("Right now I'm studying...
...confided to the White House Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner that the President had tried to discourage him from ad-libbing his speech, suggesting that he should recite only his name, rank and serial number in stead. Said Agnew: "Well, I told him I thought I ought to say something more important than that, and he looked at me again. And, you know, for a minute there I thought I had a glimpse of the old Nixon...
...told the Gridiron Club dinner that Nixon had urged him to get on TV interview shows, and had the White House staff schedule appearances. Said Agnew: "I'll be on Meet the Press, opposite the Army-Navy game; on Face the Nation opposite General de Gaulle's arrival at the White House; and on Issues and Answers opposite live coverage of Julie and David's surprise party for Ted Kennedy - at the ranch." But Nix on also promised him, he said, "that when he's ready to recognize Red China, he'll let me announce...