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There is a new and deep concern this year about the historically haphazard way in which the vice-presidential nominees are chosen-after George McGovern's 1972 fiasco with Senator Tom Eagleton, after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, after the ascension of unelected Gerald Ford. A study on the subject, released this week by Harvard's Kennedy Institute, maintained that "the present selection practices contain an inherent and unacceptable degree of risk." The odds are now 1 to 2, the study judges, that the Vice President will one day become President...
Love letters by Richard Nixon to the wife of a Spanish diplomat? Even at a time when nothing about Nixonian Washington can instantly be denied out of hand, it seemed beyond belief. But high-powered Literary Agent Scott Meredith, whose nonliterary clients include Spiro Agnew and Judith Exner, claims he got an anonymous tip, was instructed to place a cryptic ad in the Los Angeles Times, then heard from a man who turned over 22 letters to the unnamed woman. Meredith added that two graphologists have verified the handwriting. Said he: "I'm not satisfied yet that they...
...would cooperate in an effort to undermine the livelihood, the daily bread, of people who have fed her at her convenience for the last four years, simply because she is a "liberal economist." The anti-Crimson mood, and its representatives like Peter Keyes '78, reminds me of Spiro Agnew's diatribes against the left-wing bias of the "Eastern Establishment" press a couple of years ago. I hope the Crimson's commitment to critical reporting continues after the departure of this year's Editorial Board. Keep up the good work! Jon Jacobs...
...scheme plays into the hands of various nationalist groups, militant Zionists, assorted terrorists and some people who are not what they seem to be. The novel's plot is complicated, although not intricate. Canfield's arrogance and pride cause moral blind spots that bring about his downfall. Agnew's characters are stiff in the joints but serviceable. The settings -Washington, Iran, the interior of Air Force Two-are described with cursory authority, while Agnew's descriptions of beautiful women are done with lingering attention to detail...
...reader's first impression might be that The Canfield Decision was acquired during a break-in at Allen Drury's apartment. But in fact Spiro Agnew writes better-if, as he insists, "I have unequivocally written all the novel myself." He has even offered $25,000 to New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home if she can prove her suspicion that he did not write the book. In any event, the novel's action-which includes brutal multiple murders and an anticlimactic missile crisis-has less energy than the rancorous opinions that stream from the mouths...