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Healing Glimpse. Undoubtedly the Nixon Administration has contributed to the new, calmer mood, both by commission and omission. The cautious withdrawal from Viet Nam has largely disarmed the antiwar movement. "Repression," real or imagined, has also stilled a lot of dissent. For all their unfairness, Spiro Agnew's attacks on the press have made many practitioners in journalism and TV a little more cautious about playing up news of dissent. The election results of last fall had a healing effect, for they gave the nation a glimpse of itself, in the kinds of candidates it accepted and rejected...
...Guardsmen were acting on an ideology enunciated by Nixon, Agnew, and Del Corso. The students were the enemy, the American Viet Cong, guilty of the crime of being in the way. The Guardsmen had been given a focus for their anger, given live ammunition, and told to take care of the situation. No one can contend that they shot cold-bloodedly, taking out their anger like the hardhats. Undoubtedly they fired in blind, tired, nervous panic. But the shells had been loaded and the powder primed very carefully in Washington and Columbus...
...difficult, though, to dislike a curmudgeon who so improbably combines the sensibilities of Spiro Agnew and Herbert Marcuse, a mind endowed with such splenetic fury that it damns kids, television commentators and Silent Majority alike. Any man with the perverse gall to propose raising the national voting age to 30 might be more interesting than his critics think...
...June, Vice-President Spiro Agnew called for the resignation of Rhodes from the President's Commission because Rhodes had said he would like to see the commission investigate the effect of Agnew's rhetoric on campus unrest...
...graduated from being a pariah to a character," Stone says with a kind of inverse pride. "If I last long enough, I'll have a certain amount of credibility and weight." Politically, he considers himself to be just about what a leading adversary, Spiro Agnew, says he is: a well-ripened radic-lib. "I was a New Lefty before there was a New Left," he brags...