Word: radicalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colson actually performed half the various acts of which he has been accused, he was easily the least principled of all Nixon's associates. The long list of deceptive practices attributed to him−virtually all of which he denies−includes drafting scurrilous newspaper ads assailing "radic-libs" during the 1970 congressional campaigns; urging the use of $8,000 in Nixon campaign funds to buy copies of a pro-Nixon book and thus balloon it into a second printing; compiling a list of Nixon's political "enemies"; requesting an IRS audit of the tax returns...
...course of the conversation, Agnew did not resort to any of his old gibes against radic-libs or anybody else-suggesting that a certain mellowing has occurred in the nation's second highest political office. A somewhat new Agnew seemed to be emerging as he presented his views on current problems and future prospects...
Exactly who is Spiro Theodore Agnew and why is he saying all those terrible things about radic-libs? Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, addresses himself to these questions like a good newspaperman: patiently, in detail. His trusting assumption is that if a biographer provides a reader with a politician's record, he is finally giving...
...pariah to a character," Stone says with a kind of inverse pride. "If I last long enough, I'll have a certain amount of credibility and weight." Politically, he considers himself to be just about what a leading adversary, Spiro Agnew, says he is: a well-ripened radic-lib. "I was a New Lefty before there was a New Left," he brags...
Nixon's relations with the Congress have been dismal. He lashed out at the Senate for refusing to go along with his Southern appointees to the Supreme Court. He campaigned harshly against Democratic candidates in the congressional elections. He allowed his Vice President to attack "permissivists" and "radic-libs" in Congress, apparently including some liberal and moderate Republicans. He personally joined the battle for some of his key programs, such as welfare reform and revenue sharing, only when it was much too late?and then he blistered Congress for not acting on them. Even the new Republican National Chairman, Kansas...