Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days till Christmas. For the unemployed in urban ghettos, it is the season of petty thievery as they seek to provide presents for their children too. A militant civil rights organization in St. Louis wants to put an end to all that and has started a leaflet and poster campaign aimed at the poor with the message: STOP STEALING FOR CHRISTMAS...
...Vice President's campaign biography, a 116-page document called Where He Stands: The Life and Convictions of Spiro T. Agnew, records that as a boy in Baltimore, he used to help his Greek-born father prepare talks before local groups. "While the Governor's best subject was English," writes Author Ann Pinchot. "this is how he learned to perfect and polish the eloquence and clarity for which he is now known." Alas, it is precisely his prose style that frightens off so many, including some who are sympathetic to his basic message. Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., while concurring...
Other times, the sayings of Spiro are merely camp?howling violations of political politesse. "If you've seen one slum," he declared during the campaign, "you've seen them all." The odd thing is that the line makes a certain cockeyed sense: there is a miserable monotony about urban slums. If Agnew had made the point with any sensitivity, the effect would have been the opposite of the one he achieved...
...American people another lesson in the misuse of power. In a series of mighty insinuations, well-orchestrated for press impact, the Administration has tried to obscure the issue behind Saturday's march on Washington by pounding on the themes of violence and ?anarchy. Individuals can help counter this insidious campaign by going to Washington themselves and making the march a huge, peaceful demonstration of indignation and anger over what has become " Nixon...
President Nixon has met the voice of dissent with a vicious campaign of threat and insinuation. Americans should not permit his twists and turns to blunt the edge of their anger...