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...support of the Nixon Administration was a matter of widespread debate in Athens in the days after the coup. Inevitably, perhaps, some Greeks whispered that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had engineered the whole thing. One particularly curious explanation: that the overthrow had something to do with avenging Spiro Agnew...
...Anthony Lukas expanded his compassionate description of the Greenwich Village counter-culture into Don't Shoot, We Are Your Children, a book which carefully portrayed the mood of the late sixties without departing into sycophancy or sensationalism. Lukas went to Baltimore for New Times in the wake of Spiro Agnew's resignation--although his brief, three-page report had some interesting background about the flourishing Maryland contracting industry which caused Agnew's downfall, it centered heavily around the proverbial scene at the local...
Christmas 1973 may well be remembered as the time when fir trees were bought not for decoration, but for firewood. In a year highlighted by Watergate, war in the Middle East and the resignation of Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, it is the ever-worsening energy crisis that holds the attention of most Americans. A world crisis has reached the shores of the United States, and no one is quite sure how to handle...
Broder predicted Americans will force themselves to forget about Nixon once he resigns, as they have been doing with former Vice President Spiro Agnew...
...national figure during the Eagleton debacle, and millions of them decided that they had seen enough. It was then, but not before, that the President's reelection was secure, at least in the absence of stunning revelations about the administration--for example that Vice-President Agnew was on the take or that the White House was deeply involved in Watergate. Earlier, however, Nixon's managers confronted the prospect of a close contest where their own candidate would have to campaign, and they knew all too well that when he had campaigned actively in the past he had won more votes...