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...There you go, quoting Clairvoyant Maurice Woodruff on his grim predictions in McCall's magazine for the Messrs. Reagan and Agnew [March 9]. Fine. But you neglect his one really important prediction, "Richard Nixon will gain great popularity in 1970. Comes time for reelection, I guarantee that he will be almost unopposed." Ah, but you don't like that...
...Songstress Peggy Lee's performance for French President Pompidou. One night during Prime Minister Harold Wilson's visit, a black limousine rolled up to the front portico at the appointed hour. The Army heralds were ready. Out trilled Rule, Britannia. Out of the limo stepped Spiro Agnew...
...that it is obvious that everyone at the time understood "the silent majority" to mean those who were dead. I find this quite hilarious in view of its present usage by the Nixon Administration. Did whoever handed it to the President know of its former meaning? Does Spiro Agnew...
...employ the Agnew hook," said Arizona's Morris Udall, co-captain of the Democrats' congressional basketball team. "This ploy," he explained, involves "intimidating scowls and feigned throws at the press table, followed by a wild charge to the south end of the court while shouting slogans, epithets and five-syllable words. While the ball occasionally ends up in my mouth, 65% of the fans who have watched this maneuver approve of it." Another Udall tactic was "the Haynsworth-Carswell shuffle-sending in a series of second and third stringers, one after another, until one of them scores." Neither...
Most breakfasts produce at least ideas and occasionally major stories. HUD Secretary George Romney laid his housing program, Operation Breakthrough, on the Sperling table. Equally memorable are the breakfasts at which Spiro Agnew said Humphrey was soft on Communism and Bobby Kennedy agonized over whether to seek the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination...