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...only sour note under the California palms was continuing reports of adverse reaction to Agnew, who Nixon had assumed would be the least controversial of running mates. "I doubt that even the closest friends of Spiro Agnew," said a Rockefeller aide, "would suggest that he is qualified to be President." "It's the same old tricky Dicky," complained Bayard Rustin, a leader of black moderates. J. Earl Bearing, a Negro member of Nixon's advisory council on crime, admitted that even he was disturbed by Agnew's billy-club approach to civil disorders...
HOWEVER the political pollsters may rate them in the weeks ahead, the adventures of Spiro and Judy Agnew, if scripted for television, would rank high in the Nielsens as wholesome domestic fare in the style of Ozzie & Harriet or Hazel...
...early scene might show Spiro Agnew, then Republican county executive of Baltimore County, leaning across the pingpong table in the rec room of their suburban house in Chatterleigh, Md. "Judy," he says, "I'm going to run for Governor." They celebrate by calling out for a pepperoni pizza...
...daughter of a chemist and granddaughter of a Methodist minister, Judy was working as a 19-year-old file clerk for the Maryland Casualty Co. in Baltimore (which, as a native, she pronounces "Ballimer") when she met young Spiro Agnew, then a night student at the University of Baltimore Law School. She recalls their first date, when they went to the movies and later drank chocolate milkshakes at an A & W rootbeer stand. They were married 18 months later, in 1942, two days after he had graduated from Army Officers Candidate School as a second lieutenant...
While his political friends know him as Ted Agnew, Judy always calls her husband Spiro. Her clothes are "unfussy" and come off the rack. Occasionally Spiro goes to dress shops to buy them for her. The Governor wears custom-made suits and shirts...