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When Nixon came to power, he, like L.B. J., warped the role of the Vice President. Nixon used Spiro Agnew as a destructive political force, isolating him almost entirely from policy deliberations...
...seemingly docile body could ever rouse itself and shake off domination by the increasingly powerful White House. But the excesses and crimes of the Nixon Administration prodded the Congressmen into aggressively reclaiming some of their powers. In the end, they helped force the resignations of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew and ultimately voted to replace Agnew with Gerald Ford and Ford with Nelson Rockefeller...
Arthur MacEwan, lecturer on Economics and the only remaining non-tenured radical in the department, said last week, "the concept of the ivory tower does not apply to Harvard, except possibly to the Classics Department--and I've heard that an ex-student in Classics once wrote speeches for Agnew." MacEwan says that the Government and Economics Departments "are bound up with advising and even running the government," adding, "Consider people like Kissinger, Bundy, Moynihan and Dunlop; consider institutions like the Center for International Affairs. The bourgeois faculty here is well-rooted in the class they serve and the system...
...decade ago, the party bounced back from the Goldwater debacle and was victorious in the mid-term elections of 1966. But G.O.P. Leader Rita E. Hauser of New York City fears that Republicans may not be able to do so now. She explains: "Six years of Nixon-Agnew-Ford have pushed the party too far to the right. The party has become too narrowly based...
...authors believe, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell were determined to humiliate, rather than pacify, the left. They reinforced Nixon's own suspicions and joined him in trying to destroy Daniel Ellsberg, a symbol of antiwar, anti-Middle America dissent, for leaking the Pentagon papers. The plumbers were installed. Spiro Agnew was unleashed. Enemy lists flourished. Watergate followed...