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...Mondale becomes a leading candidate to succeed Carter; no fewer than 13 Vice Presidents have moved up to the White House. The title of heir presumptive is a traditional one for Vice Presidents; even Spiro Agnew in the wake of the Nixon landslide of '72 was so regarded. Mondale has a more substantial claim to the title than many of his predecessors. Only two years ago he abandoned his own presidential ambitions because, he joked, in straw votes he was running behind even "don't know." Now he has a national constituency. He was unfamiliar to most voters...
...bear only moderate resemblance to the chasm between the vice-presidential nominees, Sen. Robert J. Dole (R.-Kans.) and Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D.-Minn.). As his performance in the televised mid-October debate indicates, Dole offers the American people a return to the black days of Nixon and Agnew, to an era of acerbic, divisive diatribes that alienate the young and disadvantaged. Mondale promises instead to be a powerful champion of social justice. The vice-presidential choice is itself vital enough to determine the choice between the Democratic and Republican tickets...
...document was a 13-page Internal Revenue Service summary of its audit of Ford's personal and political finances from 1967 through 1972; the audit was made as part of the Senate's confirmation hearings after Ford was selected by Richard Nixon to succeed Spiro Agnew. The identity of the informer still is not known (to disclose audit information is a misdemeanor). According to the Washington Post, he is a Carter supporter who gained access to the audit during Ford's vice-presidential confirmation hearings. The Post said that the man insisted he was acting on his own and without...
...moderate instincts warn me against Dole's smart-alecky shallowness as he stalks arrogantly along. There is something of the Nixon-Agnew flavor here. I wonder uneasily how distressing it would be should this glib practitioner, by some unfortunate circumstance, become President...
...prospect is that throughout the campaign, this sort of thing will be doled out regularly. So will some pretty sharp political barbs. Vice-Presidential Candidate Dole, after all, is the same man who said in 1969 that he went to visit Disneyland-and found Mickey Mouse wearing a Spiro Agnew watch. In the weeks ahead, he is likely to save such putdowns for Democrats. With Dole matched against Walter Mondale -a penetrating wit himself-the 1976 presidential campaign should be anything but dull...