Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...counterbombardments that his speeches have triggered have left Agnew baffled and somewhat defensive. He now limits most of his interviews to sympathetic publications, such as U.S. News & World Report, or to columnists like Holmes Alexander. It is not only the criticism that is troubling Agnew. His friends describe him as "unhappy, disappointed and frustrated" by the job of Vice President...
...after the President's Viet Nam speech. In earlier Administrations it might have seemed odd to tack on the name of the Vice President of the United States, who is traditionally almost an official non-person in Washington. Spiro Theodore Agnew, however, is turning the vice-presidency into something like an oratorical happening, raising the No. 2 office to a level of visibility and controversy unknown since the days of, well, Richard Nixon...
...every Vice President since John Adams has known, the nation's second highest office is a dispiriting post only slightly preferable to a rural postmastership (see box preceding page). "The Vice President of the United States," said Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President under Woodrow Wilson, "is like a man in a cataleptic state: he cannot speak; he cannot move; he suffers no pain; and yet he is perfectly conscious of everything that is going on about him." Agnew on the subject: "It's a sort of ancillary job where you're not in the mainstream of anything. The job itself...
...White House adviser modified Ike's reply regarding Nixon: "If you give me ten minutes, I might think of something." Eisenhower said that he would need a week, and Agnew could thus be considered a considerable improvement. Nonetheless, the Vice President has complained to friends that he feels like an errand boy. Says one of his aides: "He misses the authority of a top executive. When he was Governor of Maryland, he had full control of his schedule." Now his weekends and evenings as well as his days are at the disposal of the President. Although he dislikes parties...
SWEET is the taste of victory, but sweeter still political triumph won against the odds or against long-prevailing winds. There was thus a special savor to the celebrations of many of the winners in last week's spate of off-year elections across the nation. Like the city's Mets, John Lindsay came from ignominy to take the mayoralty of New York, and did it without the endorsement of either major party. In Virginia, moderate Republican Linwood Holton seized the Governor's mansion, occupied for 84 years by Democrats. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes, the nation...