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...longtime enthusiast for and avid collector of wristwatches that are more than merely functional, I smiled to see Dr. Dougherty's new addition: the Spiro Agnew Original [July...
...Spiro Agnew, the Administration's house curmudgeon, opened his office to newsmen and television cameras, beaming broadly as he gave his blessing to products meant to spoof him-Spiro Agnew T shirts, Spiro Agnew watches modeled on the Mickey Mouse design (TIME, July 6). Instead of fuming, Agnew co-opted the satire: advance payments and royalties from the manufacturers will go to a charity supporting American Indian children and to an organization of families of American servicemen taken prisoner or missing in Southeast Asia. "The real reason I'm here," Agnew joked on the Tonight Show, "is that...
...troops swept happily back into South Viet Nam. The President took to television for an unprecedented live, hour-long foreign-policy conversation with three network anchormen. He issued a 7,000-word White Paper justifying the Cambodian operation. This came atop public and private hard sells by Vice President Spiro Agnew and other White House and Cabinet officials; among their efforts was a four-hour briefing of television executives and publishers that produced a 49-page transcript...
...Have you heard what Mickey Mouse is wearing these days? A. A Spiro Agnew watch...
Dougherty, who claims to have had a "great response from staunch conservatives," will not reveal his politics. His cause, however, cannot have been hurt by the appearance last week of a Spiro Agnew watch on the wrist of Mrs. Ethel Kennedy. "I asked her what the watch did," reported Senator Ted Kennedy, "and she told me, 'You wind it up, and it criticizes your brother...