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Universities today are the focus of national attention. Campus disorders, attacks by Spiro Agnew, the peace movement, and the campaigns of men like Ronald Reagan are indications of just how much university activity is key to the political drift of America...
...than an advocate." But he has taken substantive positions: in favor of Presidential Counsellor Daniel Patrick Moynihan's plan for a minimum annual welfare income, in favor of the conservationists who successfully blocked a Miami jetport in the Florida Everglades. He is as critical of the liberal press as Spiro Agnew, and once told a reporter who said that a Nixon decision would not go down well in the East: "It'll play in Peoria." His staff meetings are less bang-bang-bang than Haldeman's: he moves briskly, but everyone has his say. One joke has it that Ehrlichman...
...detractors often accuse Vice President Spiro Agnew of having an instinct for the jugular. Actually, Agnew aims slightly higher. During the Bob Hope Desert Classic three months ago, he hit a drive that bounced off the head of Golf Pro Doug Sanders. Last week the game was tennis. The Vice President and Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford were paired for the Administration in a doubles match against a congressional team of New York Senator Jacob Javits and Connecticut Congressman Lowell Weicker. Blatchford stood poised in the forecourt, waiting for the Vice President's serve. It arrived−bouncing...
...mutiny, but there is deep malaise and disarray in the Government of Richard Nixon. Sullen resentment and overt bickering compound the dreariness of Washington's labyrinthine bureaucratic corridors. Cambodia and Kent State, the slumping economy and the rhetoric of Spiro Agnew have divided the nation and split the Government. In the capital, a loss of confidence in presidential leadership plagues clerks and Cabinet members alike. And it is unfolding against a tumultuous background of challenge to Richard Nixon from the Congress of the United States...
...into ghastlyfish, indolentfish, tediousfish, and gloryfish. Then there are the crabs. The horseshoe crab, which has a hysterically catalytic effect on me, perversely flipped over on its back just as we reached him. I clutched my sides and staggered away. I would rather have fought a million basilisks, or Spiro Agnew, than seen this ghastly sea spider. Searching for air, we came into the Harbor Room, a pleasant glass corner suspended over the outside water. An Italian lady turned to her son, gestured toward one of the two ships on the bay, and said to the boy, "There...