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...retrospect, however, there was something in Agnew's manner, his unpredictability and ferocity, that Nixon did not entirely like. The President, for example, sent Agnew out to capsize New York's liberal Republican Senator Charles Goodell. But Nixon did not tell him to label Goodell "the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party...
...grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation. Goodell, said Agnew, was the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," a remark that evoked substantial revulsion and a demand for an apology from Miss Jorgensen?which Agnew refused. Though Agnew's assault won some sympathy for Goodell, it more significantly dried up Republican money sources, who got Agnew's message and have turned to Buckley...
Still smarting from Vice President Spiro Agnew's characterization of maverick Senator Charles Goodell as "the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," Christine nevertheless did her best to be ladylike. "No, I don't have one of those Agnew dart boards," the blonde pioneer of sex-switchery told an inquirer. "I think it's wrong and disrespectful to put any elected official on a dart board. But I think it's rather interesting that he says I'm in the public domain, but that he apparently considers himself out of the public domain, because...
...would be a good idea to be more liberal and veered to the left. He voted against the two Nixon nominations to the Supreme Court; he voted for the Church-Cooper and Hatfield-McGovern bills, and filed his own anti-war measure. Agnew has called him the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican party...
...students, Sophomore Keith Jorgensen, suggests a reason: "There is less noise with girls around since you don't want to make yourself look like a fool in front of females...