Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's vice-presidency. His task is not only to attack the President's foes but also to probe the body politic's mood and temper for the cautious Nixon. Says Massachusetts' Republican Senator Edward Brooke: "Agnew is the King's taster"?sampling the public's ideological moods...
Andreas recalls that "Spiro's grandfather was rich by Gargaliani standards." He was a notary public, which carried legal duties and status in 19th century Greece. "But during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13," recalls Andreas, "there was a financial crisis." Without a trace of self-pity, Andreas explains that "though the family was financially broken, our pride and honor kept us from making crooked deals. Therefore we are poor...
...used his support of Nixon as a party rallying point. Meyner simply failed to unite Democrats or ignite independents. He probably had the best explanation for the proportions of his defeat. "I would suspect," he said on Election Night, "that there is a time when one who seeks public office seeks it one too many times. This apparently was the time...
...issue was decentralized control of public schools, favored by Negro leaders. The union viewed it as a threat to teachers' civil service rights, and a ruinous strike took place...
...desegregate the schools without provoking an uproar that would be damaging to education. Mitchell and HEW Secretary Robert Finch said that they feared that the Supreme Court's "cold-turkey" approach would accelerate the exodus of whites to proliferating private schools, eroding taxpayer support for the public schools and thereby undermining the education given to the blacks and poor whites who remain (see EDUCATION). Obviously, Politician Mitchell, who has pledged to enforce the law fully, also shudders at the prospect of having to order federal marshals or troops in Mississippi to repress disorders by potential Republican voters...