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...state executives in Washington, the White House worked overtime to woo their support for the revenue-sharing plan President Nixon promoted in his State of the Union message. There was a black-tie dinner at the White House featuring Bob Hope; there were pep talks from Vice President Spiro Agnew and Treasury Secretary John Connally, a briefing with jazzy slides and graphs from Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman and a closed-doors pitch from Nixon himself...
...ordinary congressional delegation: it includes House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Mills' Senate counterpart, Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee! Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp, also a Democrat, attacked the Nixon plan for offering neither short-term nor long-term solutions to his state's problems. Agnew in turn taxed Shapp with eroding "the unified, massive effort it will take" to get revenue sharing through Congress. But the cause of federalized welfare was already making headway with the Governors. Shapp's own need is desperate, for his state is on the brink of bankruptcy. "If Shapp...
...White House assistant who wrote speeches for Vice-President Agnew during last fall's congressional campaign said yesterday he had expected a greater reaction to last month's invasion of Laos than has so far taken place...
...White House aide said he felt Agnew had been "exceptionally effective" as a campaigner, because "he threw the entire Democratic Party nationally on the defensive." Since the election, he added, the Vice-President's role has changed. "Just as he carried the load in political matters, now he'll have to carry the load in selling programs to the people," he said...
...posters of Mao and Marcuse, a signed photo of Kate Millett and a ritual five-minute recitation at midnight from the Little Red Book, she had given up radical politics altogether. I suspect that she would not have survived at all without wheat germ and a Spiro Agnew voodoo doll. Still, it was worth it. Come graduation, I was, once again, numero uno, besieged by offers of $100,000-a-year partnerships from nine Wall Street accounting firms, invited by Melvin Laird to bring cost accounting back to the Pentagon, and asked to lunch at Nedick's by Ralph...