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...Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not criticize another Republican. Later, one Governor recalled that Agnew learned that not only newsmen can interpret his remarks in various ways. "Those were Republicans in there, all of them loyal to the party, and we had seven or eight different interpretations of his banquet talk. Agnew was really shaken. For McCall, it was a session of acute personal embarrassment. But if the Vice President learns to deal with the issues in 1972 rather than to flay individuals, McCall will think it a fair trade." McCall's judgment was that Agnew "took it very well...
Perhaps so, but Agnew is hardly taking himself off the banquet circuit. The very next day, in a speech in Akron to honor William H. Ayres, a Republican who was defeated in November after ten terms in Congress, Agnew opened Round No. 2 in the defense of his campaign role. He firmly disagreed with "the implication that the harsh thrust of partisan debate suddenly in 1970 no longer has a place in American politics," and declared that "division can be constructive...
...last week for a nine-day visit marking the symbolic reconciliation of the two countries. No more hard feelings -but no obelisk either. So far, Rome has made no move to return the pillar, and the only compensation the King of Kings seems likely to get was the state banquet and immense reception held in his honor at the Quirinale Palace...
While the show was in rehearsal, the producers offered it to the Nixon Administration. Their premiere took place at a White House luncheon, and their next gig was a Memphis fund-raising banquet where they played opposite the va-va-va-voom rhetoric of Spiro Agnew. A follow-up Tennessee State Fair appearance was taped for presentation on the Ed Sullivan Show. All that will ultimately lead, Mann hopes, to an original-cast album, a cross-country tour and a weekly TV series. The whole prospect, he says, gives him goose pimples...
...graduates kept the local bowling alley open all night. Next evening they assembled for a ham and beef banquet, looking prosperous for their ages and, because of state liquor laws, influencing their Cokes from brown paper bags. On each table at the Hilton Inn was a construction-paper centerpiece noting the most important events of the past ten years. In 1963, John Kennedy's assassination. In 1965, Debbie Bryant (a Kansan) named Miss America. In 1966, Kansan Jim Ryun runs the fastest mile. Not a word about Viet...