Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chairman Robert Strauss called Ford's words "irresponsible" and accused him -in an obvious exaggeration-of reverting to the abusive campaign tactics of Nixon and Spiro Agnew in 1970. Said Ford of his critics: "They may not have seen anything...
...conversations between himself and Nixon. Ford did not answer directly, although exactly what bearing such tapes would have on the issue of the pardon was unclear. Nixon pulled the plug on his recording system in mid-July 1973 while he was still determined to tough it out in office. Spiro Agnew was then Vice President, and Ford was the House minority leader...
...Daughter of the Regiment stands somewhere in that middle ground. In the Wolf Trap production, which has a splendid supporting cast (notably Tenor William McDonald, Bass Spiro Malas, Mezzo Muriel Costa-Greenspun) and is crisply conducted by Charles Wendelken-Wilson, Sills plays Maria, a lowly orphan girl who has been adopted and reared by a regiment of Napoleon's soldiers in the Austrian Tyrol. The love of her life, Tonio, a young peasant who wears short pants and sings a high C at any sign of affection, joins the troop to be near her-alas, just as Marie...
Reasoner Report. Whither Spiro Agnew? Harry shows us. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
Responding to the Senators, Rockefeller carefully disengaged himself from Spiro Agnew, saying that he had refused a request by the former Vice President to help arrange financing for his novel about political life in Washington. He also noted that John Ehrlichman, the former domestic affairs adviser to Nixon, had written twice to ask for money for his legal expenses. "From a human point of view," Rockefeller testified, "I'm embarrassed to say I didn't answer the letters...