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...hands of the Spiro Agnew watches move on, a dated joke. The man-no joke-moves on too. In 31 years he has advanced from "Spiro who?" to the most famous Vice President in U.S. history-but he is still an enigma...
Exactly who is Spiro Theodore Agnew and why is he saying all those terrible things about radic-libs? Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, addresses himself to these questions like a good newspaperman: patiently, in detail. His trusting assumption is that if a biographer provides a reader with a politician's record, he is finally giving...
Witcover's interesting failure-the reader gets just about everything but the man-suggests this basic rule for future biographers: Agnew must be understood less as a politician than an improbable culture hero...
...dropout from Johns Hopkins, Agnew studied law while working at Maryland Casualty Co. in the sprinkler-leakage department. After Army service in the war, he hung out his lawyer's shingle-and starved. Driven to the help wanted ads, he became assistant personnel manager at Schreibers', a Baltimore supermarket chain. Then the Army recalled Agnew and nearly sent him to Korea, although he was a married man in his 30s with three children...
...Agnew kept faith with the American dream. A civilian again, he began to find himself as an underdog representing other underdogs. Negotiating contracts for AFL-CIO butchers as well as for black fishermen in Chesapeake Bay, he became a labor lawyer to warm the bleeding heart of any liberal...