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Speaking to the Governors on the night of his arrival, Agnew provided his most candid analysis to date of the Republicans' fortunes last November. He did not dwell on the victories. Instead, Agnew sought to dissociate himself from the losses. "The causes of victory or defeat in a political election are as opaque and indefinable after as before the vote," he said. As for charges that his steel-studded rhetoric during the campaign was a divisive weapon, Agnew declared, "Nothing is more unreasonable to me. What is an election if it is not an attempt to divide the voters...
...whim, Kley then wrote to the Soviet embassy in Washington, which put him in touch with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Certainly, said the Russians. They offered a good clear satellite shot not just of Maine but of the entire coast from Long Island to Newfoundland. The Soviets' candid space cameras are obviously positioned to snap perfect views of the parts of the world that interest them most. If Kley had asked the U.S. agencies for an aerial picture of Uzbekistan, they probably could have obliged...
...American public and to Congress, State has often been an object of scorn, the refuge of striped-pants snobs devoted to balancing teacups. Last week the department looked at itself and concurred with many of the less shrill opinions of its longtime critics. It was a self-examination as candid as has ever emerged from the federal bureaucracy...
They got 'em. Voting to cut off funds were 34 Democrats and 18 Republicans, despite last-minute telephone appeals from the White House. Voting with the Administration were 21 Republicans and 20 Democrats. One candid White House aide said: "It was a bad creaming, frankly...
...Mitchell was suffering from a cold, we talked for 41 hours." Another recorder was on hand two days later when Fischer, Correspondent Bonnie Angelo, Researcher Amanda Macintosh and Writer Douglas Auchincloss met Republican Martha Mitchell and Democrat Barbara Howar for a discussion on women and power in Washington. Characteristically candid, Martha fired off some observations about TIME'S cover team. Researcher Macintosh, who lives in Manhattan, was obviously "too sweet to come from New York." As for leonine Writer Auchincloss, Martha thought he could well pass for "an ambassador or a curator of a museum." No museum piece, Auchincloss...