Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House protests, perhaps too much, that Spiro Agnew is not "on a leash." that he does not have to clear his speeches with headquarters. If that accurately reflects the Agnew-Nixon relationship, it would seem to be one of the stronger arguments for censorship...
...candor and the desire to let off steam-understandable in an energetic man with little else to do-are not the only explanation for Agnew's behavior. His demand that the Moratorium leaders repudiate Hanoi's endorsement of the movement, for instance, came immediately after a Nixon-Agnew meeting. While other Republican officials have spoken calmly and even sympathetically of the M-day dissenters, Agnew has been there to remind the Administration's harder-nosed constituents that Washington is not going soft. The precedent is almost too obvious. During the '50s, it was Vice President Nixon...
...results suggest that growing impatience with the war especially among the leaders-could undermine President Nixon's efforts to carry out a program of controlled disengagement. But they also show that Nixon has managed to win broad support for two crucial points of his Viet Nam policy-withdrawal of American troops pegged to "Vietnamization" of the war, and holding out for the right of South Vietnamese self-determination. Fully three-quarters of the public polled favor the President's program of troop withdrawals. But half of the general public would be willing to back Nixon in one last...
...Overall, Nixon has gained rather than lost ground recently. Nixon's positive rating on the conduct of the war jumped ten points from a low of 35% in September to 45% on Oct. 14, the last day of interviewing for the poll and the day before the Viet Nam moratorium. Yet 50% of the general public and 53% of the leaders gave him a negative rating, proving that he is still highly vulnerable on the war issue. Nixon's handling of the negotiations to end the war won him no more kudos. Only 45% of the general public...
...Nixon following the policies of the Johnson Administration in Viet...