Word: agnewism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singer ego-tripped through 4½ hours of praise and put-downs from Comedian Don Rickles, New York Governor Hugh Carey and a dais full of old chums. The $200-and $500-a-plate dinner also brought a visit from one hardy Sinatra pal: former Vice President Spiro Agnew. Toasting the singer for his "fierce sense of loyalty," Spiro declared: "I am honored to be his friend...
Simpson recalls that Spiro let it slip he had been to Harvard before, and that his name was now different from what it once had been. "He said he hadn't wanted to be associated with Agnew." Why he chose Jason Scott Cord still remains a mystery. Pavlovich told a friend after his arrest that if the newspapers thought the name had come from Jonas Scott Cord, a villain in Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers, "that was fine," but untrue. No matter what the name, however--nobody suspected...
...devotee knows, Doonesbury is not the first strip to make funnies a political forum. A generation ago, Al Capp's Li'l Abner was peopled with Senators, robber barons and other oversized targets. Walt Kelly's Pogo once made Lyndon Johnson a longhorn steer and Spiro Agnew a hyena. Charles Schulz's Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools. Kelly died in 1973; his widow Selby, who struggled admirably...
...counselor to Nixon, Anne Armstrong had a, wide range of responsibilities-sitting on the Council on Wage and Price Stability and the domestic council, among other jobs. Her name was briefly mentioned as a possible Vice President after Spiro Agnew resigned...
Shortly after the dismissal of the Ellsberg case, attorneys representing former vice-president Spiro T. Agnew asked Nesson for copies of motions he had filed in an attempt to bar a Boston grand jury from investigating the leaking of the Pentagon papers to the press, in order to bar a Baltimore grand jury investigation of Agnew's financial affairs...