Word: presidentitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No Muzzle. White House aides who had been deployed in the Midwest brought back glowing reports of the favorable reaction to Agnew's assaults on the peaceniks. Letters and telegrams flowed into the vice-presidential office at a ratio of 3 to 1 in favor of his statements. The...
The surest sign of the presidential imprimatur is the fact that the White House has put no muzzle on the Vice President. In fact, said an Agnew aide, "We have a constituency of one to please and we wouldn't be doing this unless we were told to do...
Equally unsettling was the Vice President's attack on the more militant dissident leaders. Describing them as "parasites of passion," "merchants of hate" and "vultures," Agnew said: "We can afford to separate them from our society with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from...
Warm Grudge. Four weeks ago, Mollenhoff and the White House helped Representative H. R. Gross put together an attack on former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey and a friend, Max Kampelman, are said to have interceded in a foreign-aid transaction on behalf of an auto gear and parts factory...
One of Scott's biggest problems is the parlous state of relations between Republican Senators and "downtown," an often pejorative Capitol Hill term for the executive branch. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky has been getting no answers to his letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper...