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What is Vice President Spiro Agnew doing these days? "Oh, he speaks a lot," says an Agnew aide. How often? "About twice a week." Another member of his staff adds the fascinating information that "he reads a lot." Declares a third: "Now he's got the time for a thoughtful approach...
...four-letter blast at Washington Columnist Maxine Cheshire during the Inaugural festivities, he has suffered chilly relations with the White House. At a Manhattan dinner to receive the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation award for being a Splendid American of "forthrightness, honesty, integrity," Sinatra found the other Splendid American, Spiro T. Agnew, playing it cool. The two friends arrived separately, supped separately, departed separately. It was left to Judy Agnew to entertain her husband's old Palm Springs, Calif., host and golfing crony...
...roster of men who had been feted and pleaded with on the case by ITT Chairman Harold Geneen and other company executives included Vice President Spiro Agnew, former Cabinet Members John Connally, John Mitchell, Maurice Stans and Peter Peterson, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, Presidential Aide John Ehrlichman and former Presidential Aide Charles Colson. The letters between ITT and Government officials suggested that ITT wanted to drive a wedge between the Administration and Richard McLaren, then head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division. ITT, in effect, was marshaling strength at the highest levels of Government to run over...
...since Spiro Agnew (reportedly) called Malcolm X "Malcolm the Tenth" have so many owed so little...
...House. Among them: Gaydos (Gay-duss), Pennsylvania Democrat; Giaimo (Gy-moe), Connecticut Democrat; Gubser (Goob-ser), Republican from California; and Gude (Goo-dee), Republican from Maryland. The only of fice that has remained impervious to the phonetic assault is, of course, the presidency itself. But Spiro Agnew is within shouting distance...