Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What had kept him from the major, decisive victory that had been so widely (and perhaps too optimistically) expected by many of his followers? In addition to his choice of Maryland's inept Governor Spiro Agnew as his running mate, it was probably his closed, negative campaign. That, and a personality that has simply never come close to captivating the U.S. voter. Nixon was so far in front that his overriding concern was to avoid a serious error-hardly the sort of strategy designed to fire imaginations. But it can also be argued that the Democrats-the majority party...
Originally viewed in the Nixon camp as a hard-working but unobtrusive No. 2 man, the Maryland Governor was indeed industrious. He was anything but unobtrusive. In three months, "Agnewism" became virtually a synonym of "malapropism," and Democrats got good mileage out of such comments as "If you've seen one slum, you've seen them all." A Democratic TV commercial consisted of the simple legend "Agnew for Vice President?"?and nearly 30 seconds of laughter...
Agnew got swift support from other sources. Maryland's Treasurer John Luetkemeyer, a Democrat, called the editorial "inaccurate, misleading and wrong in its facts." The Baltimore Sun, the Washington Star and the pro-Humphrey Washington Post, which are expert in Maryland politics, also came to Agnew's defense...
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Evidently, Maryland knew Spiro Agnew too well. With 98 per cent of its precincts in, Humphrey had carried the state 43 to 41. But his coattails weren't quite broad enough for incumbent Sen. Dan Brewster, who lost to Republican Charles Mathias...