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...MANY MORE jokes can be made about Spiro Agnew? Or LBJ? Or the upper middle-class? These are the problems gripping the political theatre, now a permanent fixture both here and in New York...
...recommendations. Mitchell opposed attacking George Wallace, for example, and was one of those who urged the nomination of Spiro Agnew for Vice President. He also was among those advocating that disaffected whites be addressed not only with the law-and-order appeal but with arguments supporting the legitimacy of Negro demands...
...running gag in Maryland throughout the presidential campaign had it that if Hubert Humphrey won the election, local Democrats would immediately demand a recount. For the Democrats were well aware that when the Republican Party won the White House, it lost the statehouse. When Vice President-elect Spiro Agnew resigns his governorship some time after the Electoral College makes his election official on Dec. 16, Maryland's general assembly is certain to choose a Democrat to succeed him for the remaining two years of his four-year term...
...world's more conservative, anti-Communist governments welcomed Nixon's election, especially such rightist strongholds as South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal. It was only in Greece, however, that people actually celebrated the event. The cause for Greek enthusiasm, of course, was Spiro T. Agnew, whose father, Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, was born in Gargalianoi in southern Greece. Of the town's present 7,000 inhabitants about 300 are named Anagnostopoulos...
...delegations that would have been necessary for the House to choose a winner. Democrats will command-but only in name-25 delegations, and the G.O.P. 20; five are evenly divided, hence would have lost their vote. Thus it might have been left to the Senate to select either Spiro Agnew or Edmund Muskie as Acting President...