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...more on its mind than mere competition. Four days before the election, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers struck the network, blacking out three N.F.L. football games and an important Face the Nation broadcast (guests: George McGovern and Spiro Agnew), and threatening to obliterate election coverage. Fearing labor troubles at the worst of all possible times, Jean Westwood, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asked CBS to keep away from any Democratic functions; several candidates also gave excellent imitations of persons badly frightened by a picket line. CBS got the message and canceled its "remote" pickups from some 20 locations...
Like Nixon, Brooke has a strong sense of history. Being the first black President of the United States would rank high in any encyclopedia, but Brooke will have to fight Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, and possibly Sea. Charles H. Percy (R III.) or renegade Democrat John B. Connolly for the 1976 GOP nomination...
Although Nixon lost Spiro's home state the lost time around, he swamped McGovern this time with 64 per cent of he popular vote...
Appearing at the Shorthand Hotel to address his campaign workers shortly after midnight. Nixon began his talk with abundant praise of his running-mate. Vice president Spiro T. Agnew. "The Vice President has proved he's a great campaigner," Nixon said...
...Twin Falls, Idaho, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew attended a cocktail party for the men he has often used as foils: the reporters who cover him. Relaxed, smiling and exchanging wisecracks, he accepted the gag gift of a policeman's whistle from newsmen. That night, as he was heckled at the College of Southern Idaho, Agnew suddenly blew a piercing blast with his new toy and shouted: "Wrong!" The startled audience gasped, then broke into loud applause...