Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press is doing precious little that isn't paranoid, shrill or defensive to correct this critical deficiency. Since Vice President Agnew has resigned to escape a jail sentence, it is easier to see--and say--that the press has overreacted to criticism, particularly criticism from on high. Long before Spiro T. Agnew launched his alliterative assault on the press, an earlier vice president, with far more impressive credentials, had staked out criticism of the press as his own territory...
...injunction against publication, of the Pentagon Papers in June of 1971; the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of the Watergate matter and its endless sequels, from July 1972 to date; and the full-scale campaign by the Committee for the Reelection of the President later by then Vice President Spiro T. Agnew to subpoena "all documents, papers, letters, photographs, audio and visual tapes" and "all manuscripts, notes, tape recordings of communication," and "all drafts, copies and final drafts of stories, columns and/or reports" and "all writings and other forms of record, including drafts, reflecting or related to direct or indirect communications...
...know anything about him, except that this is his last day," explained a White House aide curtly. He was referring to the final severance of Spiro T. Agnew from the U.S. Government. Six months to the day after his resignation as Vice President, Agnew and his Government-paid staff of six packed up last week and left the federal office he has occupied in a restored town house across the street from Lafayette Park. They have completed the task of sifting through Agnew's vice-presidential papers, turned some over to the National Archives, donated others to libraries...
...Gold, 45, former press secretary to Spiro Agnew. Gold, who appears in 97 papers, dislikes the conservative label, describes himself as a "smartass iconoclast" at a time when "most icons are liberal." Gold's work thus far has been heavier on vitriol than substance. He spent two columns attacking the new reverence for Harry Truman ("I'm tired of all this crap about cuddly old Harry"), and he uses Nelson Rockefeller as a prime whipping boy. He has not addressed the impeachment question, other than to offer one veiled suggestion that Congress "go with the Madison Plan [impeachment...
Certainly the social issue hurt the Democrats in a number of districts during the 1970 campaign. It was very easy for Spiro Agnew to run around the country charging that the Democrats tacitly supported riots, demonstrations, crime in the streets and pornography. After the Grand Rapids, Mich., congressional loss this year, a Republican leader in Congress was quoted in The New York Times as saying that his party should turn back to the old reliable social issues. Finally, another reason the liberals' strategy didn't work is that it is very difficult to beat incumbents--at any time, in almost...