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Hope delighted the crowd with jokes about Spiro Agnew and the air controllers' strike. "Spiro is quite a talker. He makes Hubert Humphrey look like Calvin Coolidge," Hope quipped and added. "When people play golf with the Vice-President, they take out medical insurance. Nixon's going to have him play Fullbright...
Predictably, Nixon's statement caused a furor. It was in no way diminished when Spiro Agnew followed up on a CBS interview with an accusation that the Senate had allowed itself to be taken in by "the worst snow job of any legislative body in history." More than two dozen Senators signed a letter charging that the President had "completely mistaken" the Senate's action and pledging that they would support a Southerner of Nixon's philosophical persuasion if he met "the high legal, judicial and ethical standards which we believe are required." Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore introduced a resolution...
...more serious obstacle is the fact that to run for the statehouse, Shriver must first knock off Incumbent Marvin Mandel, a fellow Democrat and the first Jewish Governor in Maryland history. Last January, the legislature chose Mandel, the longtime speaker of the House of Delegates, to fill out Spiro Agnew's term. Because Democrats enjoy an overwhelming 2½-to-l registration edge in Maryland, Mandel looks sure to win the November election -if Shriver stays...
...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, L.BJ. and Lady Bird had no trouble finding the suite where they were expected for dinner. They used to live in it themselves when Johnson was in the Senate. In fact, the former President recommended the big old place to the current occupants-Spiro Agnew and his wife Judy. A surprise invitation? Not at all, said an Agnew aide, "He's an old admirer of L.B.J...
Thirty-three per cent of the Coop customers answering the poll chose Nixon as the employee best exemplifying the Peter Principle. Spiro T. Agnew was second with 24 per cent of the vote...