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...next January, Goodell will be neither. Boxed in by liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger and Conservative Party Candidate James Buckley, Goodell is running third. His seat is one of four that the Republicans are in grave danger of losing, and the Republicans are doing all possible to ensure the loss. Spiro Agnew has proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation. Goodell, said Agnew, was the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," a remark that evoked substantial revulsion and a demand for an apology from...
Tunney has ridden at night in a police car and he demands that the men in blue be protected from would-be assassins, evoking a "Tunney-come-lately" gibe from Spiro Agnew. He also exploits California's rising rate of unemployment, as high as 15% in some job categories, tells laboring men who are satisfied with that to vote for George Murphy. He keeps a generous distance between himself and Reagan's Democratic opponent, Jess Unruh, who now appears certain to lose...
...Spiro T. Agnew is both weapon and target in this election year. Last week, between campaign forays, he took time out to discuss this dual role, with its problems and rewards, with TIME Correspondents Hugh Sidey and John Stacks. Seated in his luxurious suite in the Executive Office Building, a white marble bust of Socrates staring over his shoulder, the Vice President was tanned from a weekend of tennis in Palm Springs. But he looked and sounded a little weary, and as he spoke, he showed a curious mixture of nearly self-righteous assurance about the accuracy of his charges...
Still smarting from Vice President Spiro Agnew's characterization of maverick Senator Charles Goodell as "the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," Christine nevertheless did her best to be ladylike. "No, I don't have one of those Agnew dart boards," the blonde pioneer of sex-switchery told an inquirer. "I think it's wrong and disrespectful to put any elected official on a dart board. But I think it's rather interesting that he says I'm in the public domain, but that he apparently considers himself out of the public domain, because...
...JERSEY: Senator Harrison A. (Pete) Williams is a strong favorite over Republican Nelson G. Gross. Gross has invited Spiro Agnew to the state to aid his campaign, a move which is interpreted as a sign of desperation...