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Reagan's Tactic. For those Governors who had hoped that Sun Valley's blanket of snow might cool off Agnew's language, that was too much. Fumed Oregon's Tom McCall, who had earlier urged President Nixon to consider candidates other than Agnew for the 1972 ticket: "There was the most unbelievable, incredible misunderstanding of the mood of America in that rotten, bigoted little speech." Other Governors labeled it simply "defensive." By the time that Agnew sat down to a closed-door breakfast with 21 of the Governors, as he later put it in an understatement...
Agnew read McCall's reaction to his speech of the previous night to the group. Reagan told McCall that he was guilty of violating the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not criticize another Republican. Later, one Governor recalled that Agnew learned that not only newsmen can interpret his remarks in various ways. "Those were Republicans in there, all of them loyal to the party, and we had seven or eight different interpretations of his banquet talk. Agnew was really shaken. For McCall, it was a session of acute personal embarrassment. But if the Vice President learns to deal with...
WOMEN'S confessions are swamping the media. Lady Bird Johnson tells McCall's' readership what it was really like a heartbeat away from the President. Gloria Steinem brings a tape recorder to the Harvard Business School, listens to all the women students wailing, and plays it back to New York magazine. And Carrie Snodgress dissects her marital crisis with a dash of liberal chic for every audience of The Diary of a Mad Housewife...
...PASSION OF ROBERT BRONSON by J. M. Alonso. 236 pages. McCall...
...format in the current McCall's looked familiar. It was a Playboy-style interview of Hugh Hefner, conducted by Writer Gloria Steinem. Gloria, a recent convert to the Women's Liberation movement, was obviously restive in her passive role as interviewer. Exasperated by one of Hefner's answers, she took the offensive: "Don't you understand you've made women objects, more easily exchanged than sports cars? It's like being on the meat hook. There are times when a woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual...