Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest came down to the last five minutes in the city that gave Spiro Agnew his political start and was decided by a Jones to Roger Carr aerial, Jones' third touchdown pass and Carr's second touchdown catch of the evening. Jones lofted the ball 30 yards in the air to Carr who gathered it in at the five-yard line before tiptoeing inside the flag at the right corner of the end-zone...
...have to respond to anyone's wishes but his own. A tyrant has no followers, only subjects, Burns argues. As a competitor in "a political marketplace," a leader must also have moral purpose to appeal and respond to his followers' wants and needs. In Burns's judgment, the Spiro Agnews and Adolph Hitlers of the world who pander to "the base instincts of persons" embody "the very negation of leadership." Leadership moves humanity towards betterment, not destruction...
...Spiro Agnew, in his days as chief White House press scourge, once called Tom Wicker "the boy wonder of opinion makers." Half right. Though his New York Times columns can be pearls of persuasive good sense, Wicker is hardly a Wunderkind. At 51, he has been a foot soldier in the service of truth, newspaper division, for nearly three decades. He has risen from the Sandhill Citizen of Aberdeen, N.C.-a backwoods weekly for which he sold ads, laid out pages and, incidentally, covered the news. He has been a White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, columnist and bestselling author...
...momentary lull in the outpouring of Watergate books, another legacy of the Nixon era needs closer scrutiny. This is the notion, propagated by Richard Nixon, that Government and the press have an adversary relationship. What Nixon meant by the phrase he made perfectly clear in a letter to Spiro Agnew during the 1968 campaign: "When news is concerned, nobody in the press is a friend-they are all enemies." But why the press should have seized upon the adversary description and proudly flaunted it ever since is harder to understand...
...admitted twice receiving presents at birthday parties given for him at the George Town Club, which Park founded as a place to court the influential. The most prominent Republican Congressman on Park's list was onetime Ohio Representative William Minshall, but, among other Republicans, former Vice President Spiro Agnew had Middle East oil business dealings with Park after he left office in 1973, and former Nixon Aide Bill Timmons received a $60,000 fee from Park for public relations work...