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...taken, Connally stands today as one of the most powerful and respected names in the Republican politics. Polls of Republican delegates before the nomination convention showed him to be their favorite for Vice-President by a long shot. And Nixon is said to have wanted him to fill Agnew's place after the latter resigned...
...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...
Three times a week for the past dozen years, Maxine Cheshire has spun out a column of capital chatter-Spiro Agnew's literary adventures, Elizabeth Taylor's offstage antics at the Kennedy Center, Muhammad Ali's hasty exit from a White House party-that the Washington Post and some 300 subscribing newspapers generally inter among the family pages. In recent months, however, Cheshire's byline has been strutting on the front page above scoops on the hottest continuing scandal of the year: alleged efforts by South Korean agents to bribe U.S. Congressmen...
Cheshire's sleuthing has brought her anguish of her own. After some less than flattering observations in print about Frank Sinatra's cronies and his budding friendship with Spiro Agnew, Cheshire bumped into Ol' Blue Eyes on Inauguration Night 1973. Sinatra loudly insulted her and stuffed a couple of one-dollar bills into her empty glass-a display that drove Cheshire to tears...
Whatever else can be said about this year's campaign, it is the first-let us pause a moment to celebrate-in which the bias of the press did not become an issue. That's a remarkable change from the suspiciousness and acrimony of the Nixon-Agnew days. Perhaps the low amount of partisanship in the country kept such accusations from being heard. But the press wasn't much committed to a candidate either: James M. Naughton of the New York Times quoted a fellow reporter as saying that in a poll of correspondents, "the undecided vote...