Word: support
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Maryland's Negroes had helped boost Agnew to victory in 1966 and generally considered him a firm friend. After April, his black support shriveled virtually to nothing. Today he is anathema to Maryland Negroes. He criticized national "preoccupation with civil liberties" at the expense of security, said that police were justified in shooting looters if they failed to obey commands to halt, assailed President Johnson for allowing the Poor People's Campaign to camp on federal land. He attacked the Kerner Commission for abetting rioting by talking of white racism. There is "an aura of belief," he said shortly before...
...someone with whom he is "simpático," and Agnew, who comes from a similar background, should fit his definition on several counts. He agrees with Nixon on most domestic issues, criticizing many federal spending programs. Like Nixon ?until recently?he has also in the past voiced "100% support" for the present war policy and expressed skepticism about improved relations with the Communist world. He will meet Nixon's demand for a hard-working campaigner. Nixon thought Henry Cabot Lodge was not energetic enough in 1960. The Marylander's credentials as a potential President and an expert on urban affairs?...
...been made against Rockefeller this year. Both can still look ahead. Unlike Barry Goldwater, who let his Senate term expire so that he could run for President in 1964, Reagan and Rockefeller have jobs to return to as Governors of the first and second most populous states. With his support still apparently undiminished in California, Ron will probably try for a second term as Governor in 1970. If Nixon loses in November, Reagan might be in a good position to try again, at 61, for the nomination...
Much may depend, of course, on Humphrey's choice of a running mate. In order to win in November, he will need the widest possible support in the cities and among the Kennedy-McCarthy factions. Three of the Vice President's favorites for a partner on the ticket are Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris, Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, and San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Catholic liberal of whom Humphrey thinks highly. A better known possibility would be Sargent Shriver, who might reconcile some of the Kennedy partisans...
...additional pressure on party regulars to adopt strong platform planks on ending the war and resolving the urban crisis. He praised both McCarthy and Humphrey, who was his neighbor in Chevy Chase, Md., for nine years. He pledged that if either wins the nomination, "he will have my active support-not only for his own considerable merit but because there is nothing in Mr. Nixon's past record to indicate that he is a man of either peace or compassion...