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...Connally, who will now have a vastly expanded stage on which to play his roles of charmer and back-room arm twister. Connally has plunged into the task with gusto. At a televised press conference last Friday, he was incisive, seemingly candid, pleasant and shrewdly disarming enough to give Spiro Agnew still more reason to fear for his spot on the Republican ticket next year...
...think there could be a black Vice President," said one man who should know. "I think," said Vice President Spiro Agnew, "that Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, for example, could be elected Vice President...
There is a barbed edge of truth in Nixon's jest. As the peripatetic Spiro Agnew sets out on yet another international jaunt, this time to Greece, Turkey and Iran, few men would envy anyone the task of handling the Vice President's press corps-small, hand-picked lot though they are.* Will Agnew make another gaffe like adversely comparing American black leaders to African dictators? Will he praise the Greek ruling junta as a force for law-and-order? Will he do nothing in Iran but play golf-or worse, just sit in his tent...
...Westbrook Pegler of my generation." Instead he became a lawyer, a public relations man and finally, in 1964, assistant press secretary to Barry Goldwater. Even before he met the Vice President, Gold wrote a still unpublished book entitled The Enemies He Has Made: The Media Morphosis of Spiro T. Agnew, which analyzed Agnew's relationship with the press, to the disadvantage of the latter...
...Vice President Spiro Agnew...