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Healing Glimpse. Undoubtedly the Nixon Administration has contributed to the new, calmer mood, both by commission and omission. The cautious withdrawal from Viet Nam has largely disarmed the antiwar movement. "Repression," real or imagined, has also stilled a lot of dissent. For all their unfairness, Spiro Agnew's attacks on the press have made many practitioners in journalism and TV a little more cautious about playing up news of dissent. The election results of last fall had a healing effect, for they gave the nation a glimpse of itself, in the kinds of candidates it accepted and rejected...
...difficult, though, to dislike a curmudgeon who so improbably combines the sensibilities of Spiro Agnew and Herbert Marcuse, a mind endowed with such splenetic fury that it damns kids, television commentators and Silent Majority alike. Any man with the perverse gall to propose raising the national voting age to 30 might be more interesting than his critics think...
...June, Vice-President Spiro Agnew called for the resignation of Rhodes from the President's Commission because Rhodes had said he would like to see the commission investigate the effect of Agnew's rhetoric on campus unrest...
Nixon also dispatched Vice President Spiro Agnew last week to plead with county commissioners, mayors and other politicians in Atlanta and Kansas City. In Kansas City, Agnew assailed those who fear that local governments cannot be trusted with unrestricted federal funds. Said he: "I don't think there is any more likelihood of a local official being corrupted than there is of a Congressman being corrupted." Nixon is also organizing 20 touring panels-three Republican Congressmen each-to plead for his program. They are being called "Drummers for the New Revolution...
...graduated from being a pariah to a character," Stone says with a kind of inverse pride. "If I last long enough, I'll have a certain amount of credibility and weight." Politically, he considers himself to be just about what a leading adversary, Spiro Agnew, says he is: a well-ripened radic-lib. "I was a New Lefty before there was a New Left," he brags...