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American aristocracy! Simple contradiction in terms. The Memsahib's got a Yankee cousin. Know what his idea of ancient history is? Spiro Agnew. Still, if one's got to deal with foreigners, trust Burke's to do a wizard job. Here: watch Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editorial director, in the introduction. First he dismisses those with no interest in genealogy as "the real snobs . . . secretly afraid of what they might find." Smashing reverse English, what? When the reader is on the defensive, the director presses home: "The only reason the undersigned can establish the identity of his earliest...
...Establishment stance is not too far removed from Wallace's attacks on "pointy-headed" bureaucrats, though Brown is more cerebral and lacks the Alabaman's folk venom. The California Governor is not so much concerned with the "little man" as with Everyman. With a slight twist on Spiro Agnew's "rad-libs," Brown's supporters might be called "rad-cons...
...unpublicized and touching note to the son of Senator Tom Eagleton, praising the father's "poise and just plain guts" when McGovern dropped him as a vice-presidential candidate. Despite the book's length, Safire's sprightly style keeps the story moving. The man who fed Spiro Agnew such alliterations as "nattering nabobs of negativism" strains to avoid cliches, and the struggle is often entertaining...
...Bonnie; Los Angeles Auto Dealer Holmes Tuttle, a star G.O.P. fund raiser, and his wife Virginia; and onetime Radio Star Freeman Gosden (Amos of Amos 'n' Andy) and his wife Jane. Comedian Bob Hope arrived at the wheel of a station wagon with Wife Dolores. Notably absent: Spiro T. Agnew, who was ensconced near by as a house guest of Sinatra...
...York City's Bankers Trust Corp. in exchange for securing lines of credit. The following day the bank revealed that last November it had asked an officer, Stephen Benjamin, to resign for dealings with Kline. The land speculator, who bribed a number of Maryland state officials while Spiro Agnew was Governor, reportedly gave testimony that led to Agnew's resignation as Vice President...