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...deeply hurt. The mass media have been under vicious attack recently, but even President Nixon and his golfing partner, Spiro Agnew, have not been so rash as to take issue with coverage on the sports page. "You gave too much attention to the front line last year, ignoring almost completely the halfbacks and fullbacks. I was very happy that in our most important game, the game against Hartwick, John Gordon, a halfback, scored the winning goal," Thomas said...
...page report prepared under the chairmanship of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, a prominent Republican, the commission unavoidably announced its findings in the middle of an election campaign, with the certainty that the report itself will become part of the divisiveness it deplores. Republicans, led by Vice President Spiro Agnew, are campaigning hard on the law-and-order theme and have repeatedly identified Democrats with violence on the campus. But the commission-whose membership is predominantly Democratic-asked Richard Nixon to silence those who are trying to capitalize on the issue of campus unrest...
Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District has all the elements that Vice President Spiro Agnew wants to mix into Republican election victories. There are the resentful white workers in automobile assembly plants, middle managers worried about inflation, and old-time gentry upset over the erosion of their ancient values. The Fifth also has a black minority (one-third of the voters) divided between slums as desperate as any city's, and a middle-class area of preachers and teachers centered around the Atlanta University complex. Now a black civil rights leader has a good chance to represent the Fifth...
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Sept, 29-Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounced the President's commission on campus unrest report as "imprecise, contradictory, and equivocal...
...leadership vacuum of the Democratic Party, it is not hard to explain the loss of nerve and the failure to press a reasoned critique against the Nixon administration. As if Vietnam were not enough to shatter liberal Democrats, the rediscovery of the Middle American working class by Spiro Agnew and Kevin Phillips has almost routed the opposition. George Meany and the unions seem prepared to kiss off the party, leaving the Democrats only a handful of blacks and over-30 academics to represent. The Democratic National Committee is fumbling for a constituency. The recent effort by the party treasurer...