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Toward the Ticket. When some 300 students from dilapidated, predominantly Negro Bowie State College appeared at the Statehouse to protest their school's condition, Agnew refused to see them, ordered out the state police, who arrested 227. "I was not going to respond while they were putting the pressure on," Agnew said. Curiously, the Governor had already doubled the school's budget and added capital funds to upgrade the college. What annoyed him was that the demonstrators had failed to make an appointment with him. Agnew cherishes a routine governed by an appointments calendar as neatly arranged as the rows...
...Negro disorders so affected Agnew that eventually he seemed to be acting at complete odds with his earlier record. He implied that fleeing looters ought to be shot on sight by police. He claimed that the Kerner Commission Report on ghetto rioting might actually abet further disorder. When the Poor People's Campaign arrived in Washington, he condemned the Johnson Administration for allowing the marchers to camp on public land. Those gut reactions at once neutralized his liberal image and sent him toward a place on the G.O.P. national ticket...
...There can be a mystique about a man," Nixon said of Agnew after the convention. "You can look him in the eye and know he's got it. This guy has got it." What Agnew has got is a reflexive feel for how millions of fellow Americans view the world?many of them through suburban windows. It is another question whether he also has the qualities of leadership, intellect and judgment that are required, in an age of instant communications and thermonuclear weaponry, of a man who might some day be thrust into the presidency of the U.S. Agnew...
...Portland, Ore., the building that once housed the headquarters of Eu gene McCarthy's volunteers is now the campaign headquarters for Nixon and Agnew. Directly across the street is the Humphrey-Muskie headquarters, a 70-foot walk for any dispossessed McCarthyites in search of a cause. But last week, in Portland and across the na tion, few were taking the stroll...