Word: richard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certitudes of middle-class values, he speaks with the authentic voice of Americans who are angry and frightened by what has happened to their culture, who view the '60s as a disastrous montage of pornography, crime, assaults on patriotism, flaming ghettos, marijuana and occupied colleges. If he speaks with Richard Nixon's tacit approval?and he does?Agnew does his duty gladly, bringing missionary zeal and a sense of genuine moral outrage to his oratory...
...effect, as Eugene McCarthy observes, Agnew is acting as "Nixon's Nixon." Just before the 1954 congressional elections, Richard Nixon said: "Ninety-five percent of the Communists, fellow travelers, sex perverts, dope addicts, drunks and other security risks removed under the Eisenhower security program" were hired under Harry Truman. Now Agnew is out walking the point, flailing at "ideological eunuchs," "merchants of hate," "parasites of passion" and campus protesters who "take their tactics from Castro and their money from Daddy...
Among those who are to gather this week at the cape to watch the blast-off is Richard Nixon, who will be the first President to witness a launching. It will be Nixon's second space first as President. In July, he was aboard the carrier Hornet to welcome back the Apollo 11 astronauts...
...Clipper into moon orbit after 83 hours in space. Then Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, and Space Rookie Alan Bean, 37, will board the module Intrepid for their trip to the moon's surface. While his fellow astronauts explore the Sea of Storms 69 miles below, Gemini Veteran Richard F. Gordon Jr., 40, will spend a lonely day and a half in orbit...
...also a good day for Richard Nixon, who had personally campaigned for Holton in Virginia and for William Cahill, the gubernatorial winner in New Jersey. Both men won bigger than expected, and the G.O.P. will control 32 of the 50 Governors' mansions, an arithmetic not duplicated since the first Eisenhower landslide. The outcome on the principal sites of combat...