Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnewwas an American politician who served as the 39th Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973, under President Richard Nixon...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 November 1918
CountryUnited States of America
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A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.
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Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.
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All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.
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I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
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If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.
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If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
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Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism ...
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
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Bad news drives out good news. The irrational is more controversial than the rational. Concurrence can no longer compete with dissent. One minute of Eldridge Cleaver is worth ten minutes of Roy Wilkins. The labor crises settled at the negotiating table is nothing compared to the confrontation that results in a strike ... normality has become the nemesis of network news.
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The United States, for all its faults, is till the greatest nation in the country.
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You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
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Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.
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Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
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In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.