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Columnist Arthur Hoppe's apocryphal news item as Spiro Agnew returned from his Asian and Pacific trip recently was not meant to be taken seriously. Neither was President Nixon's welcoming remark, in which he jocularly warned the Veep to "watch out how good you're getting." There is, nonetheless, a certain edge to the jesting these days. Spiro Agnew is emerging as a politician and a power in his own right as no Vice President-including Richard Nixon-ever...
...establishment and war protesters touched a responsive chord in America. Agnew is "really a booming stock right now," says an aide. Tickets for upcoming Agnew appearances in Atlanta are selling out fast, and he is booked into Florida and Mississippi. A Florida dealer has sold 30,000 "God Bless Spiro Agnew" posters. In California one enterprising printer is marketing 50,000 "I Like Spiro" bumper stickers. Others cropping up on America's bumpers include "Sock It to 'Em, Spiro," "Spiro Of '76" and "Agnew Tells It Like It Is!" In Pennsylvania, Spirophiles have started SAFARI, "Spiro Agnew...
...students, the peace workers, the black militants, the Charles Garrys, the Dan Berrigans, the Panthers and the Young Lords who are alive to the currents that can move our country toward a more honest, yes painful, human freedom. It is not the Silent Majority, who wait for a Spiro to voice their private thoughts and then say "Amen," who are going to affect the dynamism of America. I think that the people who are satisfied and proud ought to be invited to leave, for they don't truly love their country nor do they want a greater future...
...policies. Republicans are even talking hopefully of seizing control of the Congress for the first time since 1954. But they need to gain an improbable 29 seats in the House to secure a majority; only seven in the Senate would give them a 50-50 tie, which Vice President Spiro Agnew could break in their favor...
When Richard Nixon puts that question to Spiro Agnew this week, the Vice President will be able to give a creditable reply. Returning from his 39,000-mile tour of eleven Asian and Pacific countries, Agnew can report that his first venture into geopolitics went without a major mishap. It was, as billed, a useful educational tour for the man who could some day become President...