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...Spiro Through Dark Glasses...
...Whoever wrote "Nixon Declares an Encore for Spiro" [July 31] was looking through the wrong end of the telescope -and with dark glasses at that. His prejudice shows in every line...
...Miami Beach three weeks ago. The hour was horrendously late because of all those unruly, facetious vice-presidential nominations from the convention floor, but McGovern was saying to the delegates that he did not mind because Senator Thomas Francis Eagleton of Missouri was so clearly a superior alternative to Spiro Agnew. Only moments before, Eagleton had stood on the podium with his running mate, arms raised in triumph, a partly dazed but wholly rapturous grin spread across his boyish, Jack Lemmony face...
...decision more important than his choice of running mate. Last week he made his choice, and to many, friends as well as foes, he seemed for once to have reneged on the principle he espouses in so many other areas, and taken the easy way out. He retained Spiro T. Agnew as his running mate, offering the narrowly partisan and almost cavalier explanation that "one should not break up a winning combination." It could be a critical choice for the campaign, since Agnew is surely one of the Democrats' best issues and, more significantly, a fateful choice...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--Vice President Spiro Agnew has criticized Sen. George McGovern's amnesty policy and called for "tough" treatment of Americans who fled the country to avoid fighting in Vietnam. Agnew told a Republican fund-raising cocktail party that the Democratic nominee's proposal "makes utterly no sense...