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...play it safe, to bet that self-preservation?just staying together as a party?will be nine-tenths of victory. It is, after all, an election in which the incumbents are in danger simply because they are incumbents. Nixon's choice of the factionally neutral Spiro Agnew as running mate was part of that strategy...
Ideological Equations. Practically every one of those names was mentioned in what became the second biggest guessing game at the convention. The big question, of course, was: Could Nixon be stopped? The next biggest: If not, who would be his running mate...
Most people around the Square had already been swallowing hard for eleven hours when word came up from Miami yesterday that Spiro T. Agnew was Nixon's running mate. That did it. Young and old were revolted. A New Nausea swept the area...
...Richard Nixon's stop watch, it was time to end the qualifying heat and prepare for the marathon ahead. As odds-on favorite for the Republican presidental nomination, he had to give serious consideration to the choice of a running mate. He also set out to polish position papers for the G.O.P. Platform Committee, and write an acceptance speech. For his retreat, he borrowed a white bungalow at California's Newport Beach that resounded all week to pounding waves from the West...
...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 towns. Since Robert Kennedy's death, he has also decided to run for Congress...