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Nixon also dispatched Vice President Spiro Agnew last week to plead with county commissioners, mayors and other politicians in Atlanta and Kansas City. In Kansas City, Agnew assailed those who fear that local governments cannot be trusted with unrestricted federal funds. Said he: "I don't think there is any more likelihood of a local official being corrupted than there is of a Congressman being corrupted." Nixon is also organizing 20 touring panels-three Republican Congressmen each-to plead for his program. They are being called "Drummers for the New Revolution...
...York's liberal Republican Jacob Javits and the state's incoming Conservative James Buckley exchanged friendly banter, even though Javits had just challenged Buckley's right to join the Republican caucus. After he was sworn in, California Democrat John Tunney smilingly grasped the hand of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who had personally fought his election. A bipartisan ovation greeted the return of Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned the man who beat...
Those are commendable moves, and MacGregor is working especially hard to mollify the more progressive Republicans in the Senate. They are such men as Mark Hatfield, Charles Mathias and William Saxbe, who have felt not only ignored by the White House but threatened by the Nixon-Agnew attacks that helped defeat New York's liberal Republican Charles Goodell. Yet much more is needed than MacGregor's good will. Old pros on the Hill are beginning to wonder if Nixon really understands Congress, despite his four years in the House. The fact that MacGregor is sporting an I CARE ABOUT CONGRESS...
...colorblind" administration and appointed a young black to a top position on his staff. West had been a winner over Republican Albert Watson, whose campaign bluntly played on fears of busing and defiance of court orders and had the benefit of personal campaigning by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Housing, education and hunger, West said, were the problems that would occupy his administration, not the old bitterness of race...
...spasms of electoral polemics and his long brawl with Congress have, despite his relish for a fight, offended Nixon's sense of orderly governmental process. Now he is steering toward conciliation and concrete accomplishment, muting the rhetoric that has made some Republicans come to feel that Spiro T. Agnew did the G.O.P. more harm than good in the elections...