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...Criteria. Overwhelmed also, but hardly in the same way, were many of the Republicans and much of the country when Nixon went on television 15 minutes later to announce his selection. Nixon laid out three criteria for the No. 2 man on the ticket: 1) he must be qualified to become President, 2) he must be an effective campaigner, and 3) he must be capable of assuming the new responsibilities for domestic affairs that Nixon says he will entrust to his Vice President...
...very new, moderately successful Governor with no national or international stature (see following story). Many Northern Republicans were rankled by the ready acceptance of the selection by Southerners and by conservatives generally. Although Agnew is a moderate by Maryland standards and a liberal by Deep South criteria, there was the suspicion that he was on the ticket to placate Thurmond and other segregationists. Not only liberals protested. Colorado Senator Peter Dominick howled: "There are 2,000,000 people in my state who have never heard of Agnew. It's a terrible choice...
...about improved relations with the Communist world. He will meet Nixon's demand for a hard-working campaigner. Nixon thought Henry Cabot Lodge was not energetic enough in 1960. The Marylander's credentials as a potential President and an expert on urban affairs?two of Nixon's other stated criteria in making his choice?are less convincing. He has no background at all in foreign affairs and little experience in city problems, which Nixon has said would be a prime concern of his Vice President. Baltimore County, which Agnew governed until 1966, has few of the problems...
...Republicans figured heavily in the speculation as the convention opened. Virtually all of them could offer Nixon, a man of the center, the sort of progressive appeal that would compensate for his weakness in the heavily urbanized industrial states. Such ideological equations are fast replacing geographical balance as the criteria for the second spot. Reagan, Texas Senator John Tower and Florida Governor Claude Kirk figured less prominently in the speculation; if Nixon decided that he needed a man from the right to offset George Wallace's third-party appeal, he was expected to turn to them. But the betting favored...
...clergyman, I suppose I'm most sensitive to some of the moral issues involved, and I have been very much impressed with the grounding of McCarthy's thought in Christian moral theology. He says the war in Viet Nam is an immoral war, using the criteria for a just war that have a good many centuries of Christian thought underlying them." Elder long ago decided 'to work within the Democratic Party to reform it." This spring, when he ran as a McCarthy-pledged delegate, Elder and his running mate defeated organization opponents who were mayors of sizable...