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...Third Presidents and religious leaders routinely do well in George Gallup's annual search for the ten men whom Americans admire most, so it was hardly news when Richard Nixon and Billy Graham placed first and second in the latest round. That Spiro Agnew ran a close third behind Graham was something else; Vice Presidents frequently flunk the ten test entirely, and none has ever reached so high an eminence in the poll's previous 21 heats. Hearing the news while in Asia, the Vice President reacted modestly: "Well, it surprised me, but I've never been...
...Hanuman Doka temple. "It's not really his sort of thing," explained a member of his party. At one point, he praised Nepal's unique village-assembly system of government and what it could mean "for the future of India." But that geographic slip aside, Vice President Spiro Agnew's tour of eleven Asian countries had proceeded with programmed flawlessness and circumspection...
...opposition to the war is led by radicals who.don't care what happens to the U.S." In October, the public rejected this statement 49% to 37%, but now it accepts it by a narrow plurality of 44% to 42%. There is, however, no massive rallying behind Vice President Spiro Agnew's charges against the Eastern press and television networks. Only 39% go along with the Agnew attacks, while 29% are unable to make any judgment on them...
Frye is everywhere on TV these days, but nowhere is his extensive range of characters more fully revealed than in his first record album, I Am the President. The album has all those old political favorites plus Spiro Agnew, David Susskind and Henry Fonda, all right on target. Nixon's singsong baritone is so close to the mark, it makes one hope Frye never gets near the hot line. L.B.J.'s drawl reeks of chili down on the Pedernales, while Nelson Rockefeller's gravelly voice sounds as if he had taken a speech-improvement course and swallowed...
...album has any shortcoming it lies in Spiro Agnew, and that suffers mostly by comparison. Frye is so dead-on with other politicos they become frighteningly real. Spiro, meanwhile, comes off as a slapstick caricature, a fey idiot who can't tell time...