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Such snarls have won Deeb, TV and radio critic for the Chicago Tribune, a reputation as the wolf-man of the air waves−the sourest, crudest ravager of the medium since Spiro Agnew put away his thesaurus. Deeb's daily diatribes, now syndicated to 60 papers, do not merely dissect new shows but also provide inside accounts of broadcast-industry greed, timidity and assorted other failings. Deeb has described lavish network press junkets in embarrassing detail, disclosed power struggles at local stations, and even exposed the suppression of an abortion documentary at WON, the Trib...
Black Vote. Carmichael, a wealthy Volkswagen dealer from the lively business center of Meridian, gained attention by winning an unprecedented 39% of the vote in the 1972 race for Eastland's Senate seat. In that campaign Carmichael was snubbed by Richard Nixon, who sent Spiro Agnew to appear with Eastland during visits to Mississippi. The cold shoulders helped Carmichael's reputation as an "independent Republican," a useful image in a state where less than 10% of the 1.1 million voters think of themselves as belonging to the G.O.P...
Changed Image. When Bentsen arrived in Washington, Vice President Spiro Agnew greeted him as one of the "ideological majority" that would support the Administration. Bentsen quickly set him straight: "I'm coming here as part of the loyal opposition, not as part of the Nixon forces." He proceeded to change his image by voting with the liberals to make it easier to invoke cloture. From then on, Bentsen was tagged as "unpredictable." Filling his office with flow charts, maps and graphs, he established a reputation for probing analysis of complex issues. He took pride in exposing economic illiteracy, whether...
...extenuated, or even to have them regarded as political acts reflecting a morality 'higher' than obedience to the law." Says Gerald Caplan, director of the research branch of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration: "Is the black fellow who steals a car a victim of society or its enemy? Is Spiro Agnew a political victim or a predator on society? People have varying answers...
...President." Yet he overpraises Nixon's non-Watergate presidential actions at home and abroad, even to the bombing of Hanoi and the Cambodia "incursion." White is also dealing in vapors when he contends that the press turned wrathfully upon Nixon because its "chief public enemy," Spiro Agnew, "had been spared the shame and public guillotine of impeachment...