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...profited from it, I think all the rest of us have too. Mr. Halberstam spoke several minutes ago about the lack of awe for figures in respect which The Crimson taught the people of his generation. Well, saying we learned a lack of awe is like saying that Spiro Agnew has overcome shyness in the White House. It was like a sense of awe was not the biggest trouble we had to overcome. I think that no matter what the bad consequences of those years might be, and I have in mind. The Independent, University gifts, etc. that...
...target of reprisals. His reporting of foreign policy problems provoked Kennedy to cut off Sidey's White House sources for two weeks in 1961. Lyndon Johnson once responded to a column by dismissing Sidey as an "Ivy Leaguer." (Sidey, a fourth-generation Iowan, went to Iowa State College.) Spiro Agnew has ranked Sidey among the Administration's biased critics. Reviews like that demand continued performances...
...mind and decision-making apparatus at work. The move came after Nixon and Kissinger concluded that it was the proper course, and Kissinger, acting for Nixon, had consulted with and won the approval of Secretary of State William Rogers, Melvin Laird, CIA Director Richard Helms, Vice President Spiro Agnew and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Because the agreement was complete, the National Security Council was not called into formal session to debate the proposition to unleash the full fury of U.S. air power on Hanoi...
...University Architect. "We need a good Structuralist around here", Bok explains. "Now that we've built Gund Hall, maybe Dr. Levi can tell us what it's for." In an uncharacteristic display of independence, the Senate erupts in a barrage of catcalls and Bronx cheers until Spiro Agnew and a phalanx of Sergeant-at-Arms convince Congressional spitoons to turn on their former masters Frank Fisher, director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning releases a report entitled What the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1973 Wants to Do When It Grows Up. The new study shows...
...Walter Thompson, replaces John Ehrlichman as executive director of the Domestic Council. The post will not be as significant as it used to be, because the council has lost several members who have moved to the executive departments. It will, however, absorb the Intergovernmental Council, which was headed by Spiro Agnew during the first term. Ehrlichman, meanwhile, will remain the President's chief domestic policy aide, leaving day-to-day management to Cole...