Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile the rest of America goes homeless. Revel neglects the plurality that elected Nixon president. In Revel's context Spiro Agnew is kept busy fighting a rear guard action against the massmedia. The compulsion to split the country neatly into left and right also ignores the middle class and its love of the status quo. American is not, as he says, "composed of two antagonistic camps of approximately equal size." The nation holds a spectrum of ideologies. Even a division into three parts would be more valid...
...Republican convention Nixon dumps Spiro and nominates Pat for Vice President. He explains, "Ever since Checkers died she's the only one I can trust...
...fantasy is perhaps farfetched. Ed Brooke is not in the first rank of prospects to replace Spiro Agnew if Nixon decides next summer that the present Vice President is more of a political liability than an asset. The men most often named now are Treasury Secretary John Connally and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. But the possibility of Brooke fascinates political leaders...
Like all others in the future, the January issue will have a central theme -in this case, politics-within an editorial mix of about fifty-fifty fashion and non-fashion. There will be contributions from Spiro Agnew, George Wallace, Edmund Muskie, George Mc-Govern and Ted Kennedy, among others. Fashions will be displayed against political backdrops. In February, the background will be Manhattan and the issue theme "In Defense of New York," highlighting an interview with John Lindsay on what he doesn't like about the New York Times...
...words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none comes out!!" Pogo has been invaded in recent months by an odd beast, half Great Dane and half hyena, that looks and alliterates like Spiro T. Agnew, by a bulldog that might be taken for J. Edgar Hoover, and by a pipe-smoking, improbable baby eagle that might fool even Martha Mitchell into thinking she had seen John. This trio of animal crackers spends most of its time trying to decipher messages from an unseen chief...