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Nixon Link. At home, many Republicans cannot accept Connally because he is a backslid Democrat, a Lyndon Johnson confidant who switched parties in 1973, opportunistically figuring that Nixon would help him win the 1976 presidential nomination. Indeed, he was Nixon's first choice to succeed Spiro Agnew in 1973, until it became clear that Congress would not confirm...
...Spiro Pavlovich allegedly pulled the veil over Harvard's eyes twice. He was accepted to Harvard Law School in 1968 after allegedly forging his academic records from Tulane University. He survived at the Law School for two-and-a-half years before being challenged...
Then back. North Carolina mountains give way to Virginny hills and suburbs, to Washington D.C. sodium orange crimefighter lights; then Maryland's middle classness from whence came Spiro; Delaware River a test-tube for dynamite, gunpowder and napalm; New Jersey wasteland where poets rot as general practitioners; New York where seven million were swallowed by the Tall Ships; Connecticut state cops always on the other side of a divided highway, thank Grasso! The Massachusetts autobahn...
There is a new and deep concern this year about the historically haphazard way in which the vice-presidential nominees are chosen-after George McGovern's 1972 fiasco with Senator Tom Eagleton, after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, after the ascension of unelected Gerald Ford. A study on the subject, released this week by Harvard's Kennedy Institute, maintained that "the present selection practices contain an inherent and unacceptable degree of risk." The odds are now 1 to 2, the study judges, that the Vice President will one day become President...
Soon after, Spiro reappeared at the Law School in disguise, proclaimed his innocence and confided to a friend, "Everyone just assumes Spiro Paviovich is real...