Word: commented
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...urged Agnew to adopt a positive tone, to California's conservative Ronald Reagan, who suggested that the Vice President dodge inflammatory statements about individuals. If necessary, said Reagan, the Vice President could always claim that he had not read a provocative speech or statement and therefore could not comment on it. Oklahoma's conservative Dewey Bartlett reminded the Vice President that he had been personally-and unsuccessfully-asked not to criticize former Democratic National Chairman Fred Harris while in Oklahoma...
Agnew replied that by his reckoning, 80% of the media "are after me and the Republican Party." He was prepared with a sheaf of press clippings illustrating what he clearly thought was unfair and vituperative comment about him by the press. Many articles contained partisan statements made by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien and other top Democrats, which Agnew argued had been accepted as fact by the papers that printed them. He was especially incensed by a front-page story in the previous day's New York Times reporting that a majority of Governors at Sun Valley...
...Gomulka, of course, rests not with Warsaw but with Moscow, which regards him as a good friend but would sacrifice him if hard-lining Polish Communists insisted. The Russians, however, gave little indication of their sentiments. Brief Polish communiques on the riots were broadcast in Moscow, but without comment. The three army divisions that Russia maintains in Poland were alerted, but they remained in their barracks. Obviously, the Russians were waiting to see how well the Poles handled the problem...
...evidently felt compelled to take umbrage at Moro's comment in order to keep Slovenian nationalists quiet. As a result of the manufactured crisis, both governments announced that the trip had been "temporarily postponed...
Both Richard Kearsley, research associate in pediatrics working on the project, and Kagan were not available for comment yesterday...