Word: agnewism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Chairman Robert Strauss called Ford's words "irresponsible" and accused him -in an obvious exaggeration-of reverting to the abusive campaign tactics of Nixon and Spiro Agnew in 1970. Said Ford of his critics: "They may not have seen anything...
...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...
...between himself and Nixon. Ford did not answer directly, although exactly what bearing such tapes would have on the issue of the pardon was unclear. Nixon pulled the plug on his recording system in mid-July 1973 while he was still determined to tough it out in office. Spiro Agnew was then Vice President, and Ford was the House minority leader...