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...mixed to Songstress Peggy Lee's performance for French President Pompidou. One night during Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit, a black limousine rolled up to the front portico at the appointed hour. The Army heralds were ready. Out trilled Rule, Britannia. Out of the limo stepped Spiro Agnew...
...that it is obvious that everyone at the time understood "the silent majority" to mean those who were dead. I find this quite hilarious in view of its present usage by the Nixon Administration. Did whoever handed it to the President know of its former meaning? Does Spiro Agnew...
After the fact, the response by federal and state officials was vigorous. The White House and Spiro Agnew deplored the incident and vowed that violence would not be allowed to impede desegregation. The FBI moved in to investigate, while state authorities seem bent on prompt prosecution. Even Albert Watson said the rebellion at Lamar should not have happened...
Most breakfasts produce at least ideas and occasionally major stories. HUD Secretary George Romney laid his housing program, Operation Breakthrough, on the Sperling table. Equally memorable are the breakfasts at which Spiro Agnew said Humphrey was soft on Communism and Bobby Kennedy agonized over whether to seek the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination...
...have a son this year, but her marriage "won't last more than another year and a half or two years." (It is Ari who will leave, according to the seer.) Ethel Kennedy will go into politics; Ronald Reagan will lose the California gubernatorial race; and "I doubt Spiro Agnew will serve his full time in office." . . . She looked more like a heroine of the Bolshevik Revolution than the reigning monarch of Britain. But it was Queen Elizabeth II all right-facial blemishes and all-who stood so sternly in Pietro Annigoni's new portrait. Said the Italian...