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...VICE PRESIDENCY On the Road with Agnew With stops in Spain, Morocco and Portugal this week, Vice President Spiro Agnew will wind up his 32-day, tennation tour of Asia, Africa and Europe. TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey has been with the Vice President all the way. From the Congo, he sent the following assessment...
...Seoul, his first official stop, Spiro Agnew firmly planted his foot on the platform of his slow-moving, flag-emblazoned Jeep, and hung on tight. The determination was unmistakable and prophetic. On this, his third official trip abroad, the Vice President was clearly determined to resist his well-known proclivity for putting his foot in his mouth. The result has been a mission free of serious or even amusing gaffes like the Philippines miscue in 1969, when Agnew nearly sat on President Marcos...
Vice President Spiro Agnew packed up his clubs, bade farewell to Fellow Golfer Bob Hope in Palm Springs, and embarked upon an official good-will tour of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. In all, he will be out of the country for 32 days, longer than any Vice President since Richard Nixon...
...Essay is, once one has circumnavigated the semantics, a somewhat querulous defense against attacks upon your medium by the rudely righteous right (known to themselves as the practically perfect patriots). Don't panic, TIME. Your magazine will still be on the newsstands when people again say: "Spiro T. who?" In the meantime, you should adopt the attitude of the Geological Journal, which doesn't become the least bit upset when someone says it is a Commie rag because it maintains that the world is round...
Coles records a lingering (and lately reinforced) populist disgruntlement with big business, as well as a sensible cynicism about the "selective sympathy" of liberals and radicals. Over the lunch pail they may sometimes sound (and know they sound) like Spiro Agnew or George Wallace, but they are aware that such politicians are mainly-perhaps only-concerned with getting their votes...