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...last two Governors, Spiro T. Agnew and Marvin Mandel, both supplemented their incomes by taking payments from friends. Mandel even received payment in the form of clothing, jewelry and plane tickets. Both officials lost their jobs when the law caught up with the methods they used...
Though Actress Judy Holliday specialized in playing dumb blondes, legend has it that she possessed a towering 172 IQ. Spiro Agnew says his is 135, which puts him well into the ranks of the intellectually superior. South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims...
Nixon thought these men a dangerous cabal of liberals and unleashed Spiro Agnew on them with accusations that are still widely believed. Actually, the literary pontiffs of Washington come in carefully calibrated ideologies these days and are so marketed. For example, the giant Gannett chain allows the editors of its 73 papers to pick their own political columnists and urges them to choose a broad spectrum...
...right where he has been -very much at Carter's side What ever happened to ... Lyndon, Hubert, Spiro, Jerry, Nelson...
Safire less frequently bashes Republicans, but he has publicly disowned Spiro Agnew for his anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...