Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spiro Agnew (powerful) accepts bribes while lecturing the nation on morality. Punishment: loss...
...suburban Minneapolis and sliced his ball 150 yds. into the rough. It hit a tree, then ricocheted off the left side of the head of Spectator Tom Gerard, 17. Pronounced fit, Gerard, a high school senior, became the fifth survivor of inadvertent vice-presidential assault in recent years. Spiro Agnew beaned three spectators on the links and stunned Golf Pro Doug Sanders in a benefit tourney. Ford had another narrow escape after he had dealt with Tom. On the 16th tee he zapped the golf cart carrying two reserve police officers. Later, Ford, dressed in knickers and cap, took...
...axis is hardly unanimous. During much of the Viet Nam War, there were significant editorial differences. In 1972 the Times supported George McGovern while Time Inc. endorsed Nixon. Among Times columnists last year, Tom Wicker and Anthony Lewis were more critical of Spiro Agnew than their colleague James Reston was. Further, the liberals?however that term is defined?hardly have a news monopoly, even in New York and Washington. U.S. News & World Report generally takes a conservative line, and the Washington Star-News is to the Post's right. New York is the editorial home of the Wall Street Journal...
...home, even before Viet Nam many newsmen were already emotionally committed to the civil rights movement. George Wallace foreshadowed one of the Spiro Agnew themes as he attacked the Northern liberal press for meddling in the South. As racial tension spread, whites in other regions who felt threatened by minority-group pressure also came to resent the press's role...
...campaign, and considerable admiration during his first term. Even the cartoonist Herblock, long one of Nixon's cruelest antagonists, observed the traditional honeymoon accorded new Presidents by giving the man a decent shave. Nixon hardly reciprocated. He installed an arrogant press secretary who treated the press shabbily. He dispatched Spiro Agnew and other sappers to harass the enemy. Aides like Clay Whitehead and Charles Colson sought to stifle network commentary as unfair...