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Appearing at the Shorthand Hotel to address his campaign workers shortly after midnight. Nixon began his talk with abundant praise of his running-mate. Vice president Spiro T. Agnew. "The Vice President has proved he's a great campaigner," Nixon said...
...this unexciting campaign, it is the junior partners rather than the presidential candidates who lend color to the proceedings. Agnew, obviously seeking a new image, has for the most part dropped his old shrillness in favor of a more judicious, lighthearted and confident style. Shriver, oddly, often comes across almost as bombastic as the old Agnew; yet there is an ebullience about him that makes him the liveliest of the top four candidates...
Traveling in his comfortable jet, Michelle Ann III (named for his granddaughter), Agnew is campaigning at a rather stately pace, but nevertheless, he has hit 32 states and covered more than 35,000 miles. He sprinkles his stump speeches with light sallies. In Columbus, Ga., Agnew contended that "McGovern couldn't carry the South if Rhett Butler were his running mate." Firing at Ted Kennedy, Agnew replied in Idaho to Kennedy's criticism of the Administration's farm policy by terming him "that great son of the soil," and adding: "They learn a good deal about farming...
...Although Agnew has chosen his appearances before young people with care, selecting such conservative campuses as Brigham Young University and Michigan's Calvin College, he has been harassed by hecklers at many stops. When some students at Calvin College chanted, "Dump Nixon!", Agnew said "Since you are unable to think independently, I'll lead," and waved his arm to direct the chorus. The crowd loved it. In Syracuse, he gibed at demonstrators who were walking out on his talk: "Bye! Don't forget your bottle before...
...Agnew attacks McGovern by implying that the Democratic candidate favors the coddling of criminals, permissiveness toward drugs, loafing on welfare and the street antics of radicals. At other times, he haughtily dismisses Nixon's opponent. "McGovernism," he predicts, "will be nothing more than an obscure footnote in the pages of history." Still often patronizing and rigidly righteous, Agnew has changed more in style than in substance...