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...might be called "the Fat Jap Syndrome," in honor of Spiro Agnew's jocular question aboard a campaign plane in 1968, when he observed Baltimore Sun Reporter Gene Oishi asleep in his seat and inquired, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" What was intended as bluff bonhomie immediately appeared to be racial callousness...
...intervention in court cases involving busing, and 3) legislation limiting busing while providing other means to upgrade substandard schools. Nixon promised a decision shortly after his return from China. Barely a day passed before it appeared that the Administration had foreclosed one of the three possibilities. Vice President Spiro Agnew voiced his personal opposition to a constitutional amendment. HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson followed up the Agnew argument, noting that any amendment might well nullify landmark civil rights decisions. The word spread on Capitol Hill that John Mitchell, too, opposed an antibusing amendment. Senate Leaders Hush Scott and Mike Mansfield registered...
...remarkable that Mr. Betts, a Government tutor, labels Garrett Eppsas following Spiro Agnew and yet advocates that dissenters at an institution such as Harvard should leave if they don't like what they see. That sounds like Agnewism...
...communications director, charged that some of the Democrats "seem to parrot Hanoi's line." Repeating a joke he had heard at a Washington Republican fund-raising dinner, Attorney General John Mitchell declared that Muskie was following a Northern strategy -North Viet Nam's, that is. Vice President Agnew said in a TV interview taped for this week: "There has been a definite undermining, even if unintentional, of our position...
...late for them to flunk out and secure their status as good guys. Let not the technocratic brutes of the university power structure captiously accuse Epps of paranois, juvenile rantings, or hubris in reverse. In the august company of other devotees of mediocrity such as Spiro Agnew he has dedicated himself to the fight to dethrone A students and turn Harvard's clock back. Dick Betts Harvard '69, Teaching Fellow in Government