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...account includes devastating characterizations of many of the people around Nixon. Burger had "aggrandizing tendencies" and wanted to give an annual "State of Justice" address to Congress, Ehrlichman writes, with prime-time television coverage similar to that of the President's State of the Union speech. Vice President Spiro Agnew, in Ehrlichman's view, "wasn't too bright." Gerald Ford "had achieved his maximum potential in the Congress. When he became President, he exceeded it obviously...
...Higgins, Schwarz and her habitual food-run partner, next-door neighbor Spiro Lampros '85, are prototypes of the Harvard student he sees the most. "You get the people who come in and want to brag to me how much work they have, or how they're never going to do it again. They're procrastinators anyway, and they just don't want to go back...
George J. Callcott, 52, professor of history at the University of Maryland, on why the personal papers of former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, donated in 1974, have not been catalogued: "A majority of it is historic junk...
Suddenly things are different. Yale now wears the bell-bottoms in the Ivy League family. Their president gets attacked by Spiro Agnew. Their Classics Professor Erich Segal writes a "novel" about Youth Romance Today (Jen...what would you say if I told you...I think...I'm in love with you." "I would say...you were full of shit." The ellipses are his.) which clings moistly to the top of the bestseller lists, bringing lumpen to the throats of the proletariat (because a baker's daughter can marry a banker's son, even if she dies forthwith) while Harvard classicists...
...armor" and contains a Latin pun: cassis also means "helm.") There are not many books. Helms wants to take up reading mysteries?Dot tells him that intellectuals peruse them to relax ?but for now a Churchill biography lies on a coffee table. There are autographed portraits: President Reagan, Spiro Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover. Helms has collected dozens of figurines of elephants, but not as a hobby; most were foisted on him by friends. He has no hobbies. When he is in Raleigh, Helms never misses Pou Bailey's every-other-Thursday-night poker fest, a 35-year-old ritual...