Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write in reference to Spiro Agnew [Oct. 22]: "For nearly five years a man morally and intellectually unfit for national leadership had been just one life removed from the Oval Office." Big deal. For nearly five years a man morally and intellectually unfit for national leadership has been in the Oval Office...
...Anybody interested in a slightly tarnished, nonfunctional Spiro Agnew wristwatch? The only problem is the hands seem to be frozen in an upward clasping position...
...Nixon Government is still under investigation. Until its problems, consisting of blatant financial finagling, the Spiro Agnew love affair, and the Watergate scandal, are resolved, the Nixon Government has not the legitimacy to participate in the selection of a Vice President, or in any other constitutional act devolving on the Executive. Period...
Nixon has some defenders in town, such as Auto Dealer Edward A. Sahli, 69, who still likes former Vice President Spiro Agnew, thinks the President is a victim of "harassment and persecution," and insists that the public is bored with Watergate ("It's like going to see Uncle Tom's Cabin ten times"). More typical are the views of Karen Phillips, 23, director of Christian education at Trinity United. She no longer defends Nixon, explaining: "My dad would say, 'All politicians are crooks,' and I used to say no. Now I agree. I feel betrayed...
SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO: In an auto service shop of this prosperous suburb (pop. 36,000) of Cleveland, Mechanic Ken Masshart, 35, ridiculed Watergate for months as just another political squabble. He even used to skip over newspaper stories about it. But Spiro Agnew's resignation convinced him that something was terribly wrong in Washington. He explains: "All of a sudden, I started reading about politics again; I got wrapped up in it." For the image of the country, he thinks that "Nixon should resign before impeachment, if it comes to that...