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...former political power since the last presidential inauguration; it was a retrospective gallery of an era. There, under the monolithic and somehow Assyrian proportions of the library, were several thousand of Lyndon Johnson's friends and not a few of his old enemies, along with Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew and dozens of the other men who took over Washington when L.B.J. went home. There, in Johnson's considerable embrace, were Barry Goldwater and Hubert Humphrey, Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, Abe Fortas, Billy Graham, Luci and Lynda, Edmund Muskie, Walt Rostow, secretaries, plumbers, Congressmen, phone operators and, perhaps fittingly...
WORD CAME from Washington two weeks ago that President Nixon is working out a new "Southern strategy" in which Treasury Secretary John Connally will replace Spiro Agnew as Nixon's running mate in 1972. But the news caused only a mild wave of feigned surprise among Connally's fellow Texans. Indeed, since Connally moved into Nixon's Republican Cabinet in December, they have come to expect actions atypical of a hardened party man from their ambitious Democratic ex-governor...
...soon as the President announced Connally's appointment, politicians and columnists theorized that Nixon might dump Spiro Agnew from the 1972 G.O.P. ticket and name Connally in his place. A relatively conservative Texan, presumably Connally would not offend Agnew's followers. If the Republicans won, then Connally conceivably might find himself in 1976, at a presidentially mature 59, heading the G.O.P. national ticket. The idea is farfetched, although Connally may have indulged it in the privacy behind his hard, savvy...
...Spiro Agnew has said that if forced to choose between anarchy and repression, the American people will choose repression. Hollywood. Tories like Agnew and Reagan like to periodically remind the left of the impending bloodbath. Wall Street Tories like Kleindienst and Mitchell, though, merely insist that the first duty of the state is survival-and, we may rest assured, they have accumulated a staggering panoply of powers for precisely that...
Dismissed Dissents. The sudden anxiety created abroad by the table tennis team's visit was mirrored at home by an unexpected dissenter: Vice President Spiro Agnew. Attending the Republican Governors Conference at Williamsburg last week, Agnew summoned nine reporters to a late-night off-the-record chat and argued that the Administration was moving too fast in welcoming Peking's overtures, which he viewed as an easy propaganda victory for China and one, moreover, that undercut Taiwan. After his views leaked out, Agnew aides denied that there was any disagreement between the Vice President and his boss-though...