Word: agnewism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Changed Image. When Bentsen arrived in Washington, Vice President Spiro Agnew greeted him as one of the "ideological majority" that would support the Administration. Bentsen quickly set him straight: "I'm coming here as part of the loyal opposition, not as part of the Nixon forces." He proceeded to change his image by voting with the liberals to make it easier to invoke cloture. From then on, Bentsen was tagged as "unpredictable." Filling his office with flow charts, maps and graphs, he established a reputation for probing analysis of complex issues. He took pride in exposing economic illiteracy, whether...
...even to have them regarded as political acts reflecting a morality 'higher' than obedience to the law." Says Gerald Caplan, director of the research branch of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration: "Is the black fellow who steals a car a victim of society or its enemy? Is Spiro Agnew a political victim or a predator on society? People have varying answers...
...LIKE to be played for a sucker." Tip O'Neill, House Majority Leader, didn't like it at all when he discovered that Nixon and Agnew had been lying not only to the American people, but to other old-time politicians like O'Neill himself. Jimmy Breslin didn't like it much either, and he went down to O'Neill's office in Washington this past summer to get a new angle on Watergate, an already overworked subject. How the Good Guys Finally Won is all about deceit, politics, and how the truth will...
...President." Yet he overpraises Nixon's non-Watergate presidential actions at home and abroad, even to the bombing of Hanoi and the Cambodia "incursion." White is also dealing in vapors when he contends that the press turned wrathfully upon Nixon because its "chief public enemy," Spiro Agnew, "had been spared the shame and public guillotine of impeachment...
American aristocracy! Simple contradiction in terms. The Memsahib's got a Yankee cousin. Know what his idea of ancient history is? Spiro Agnew. Still, if one's got to deal with foreigners, trust Burke's to do a wizard job. Here: watch Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editorial director, in the introduction. First he dismisses those with no interest in genealogy as "the real snobs . . . secretly afraid of what they might find." Smashing reverse English, what? When the reader is on the defensive, the director presses home: "The only reason the undersigned can establish the identity of his earliest...