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...Senate, New 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...
...West pledged a "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...
...part of his reassessment after last fall's elections, President Nixon asked his senior advisers for written counsel on what steps he should take. When the memoranda started flowing into the Oval Office, almost all of them agreed on at least one point: Spiro T. Agnew's role should be moderated. It would create a significant softening of the Administration's rhetoric. Agnew was Nixon's most flamboyant and aggressive agent in last fall's campaign. Now, like other Vice Presidents before him, including Richard Nixon, he is being cast by some in the White...
...that the 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...
...amiable and widely admired Morton. The difference, observed one White House aide, is that "Rog is a big old St. Bernard, while Dole is a hungry Doberman pinscher." One leading Republican offers an intriguing rationale for the switch: Morton was never as partisan as Nixon wanted, so Vice President Spiro Agnew took up the hatchet duties. Now Dole will eagerly perform them, while an attempt is made to soften the Agnew image and give him broader appeal; if this fails, Agnew will be dropped from the 1972 ticket...