Word: mate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appearing at the Shorthand Hotel to address his campaign workers shortly after midnight. Nixon began his talk with abundant praise of his running-mate. Vice president Spiro T. Agnew. "The Vice President has proved he's a great campaigner," Nixon said...
...disclosure of Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton's history of mental illness helped obscure all issues by forcing McGovern to seek a new running-mate only days after the Democratic Convention ended. Combined with McGovern's reversal on his welfare proposals, the Eagleton affair permitted Nixon to depict the challenger as an incompetent who could not control his own staff, let alone the country...
...Bertram Hall is old and decrepit, and renovation is overdue. Modernization similar to the treatment given to some dorms in the Yard would be a boon. But to raze Bertram for a prefabricated high-rise would be a sacrilege scarcely more defensible than leveling Mass Hall to build a mate for Holyoke Center...
...Agnew is campaigning at a rather stately pace, but nevertheless, he has hit 32 states and covered more than 35,000 miles. He sprinkles his stump speeches with light sallies. In Columbus, Ga., Agnew contended that "McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate." Firing at Ted Kennedy, Agnew replied in Idaho to Kennedy's criticism of the Administration's farm policy by terming him "that great son of the soil," and adding: "They learn a good deal about farming in Harvard Yard...
...praised" Nixon's running mate as "a man of excellent qualities," and said he looked forward to working in the Nixon campaign in any of three divisions--" espionage, forgery or phony demonstrating...