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NATTERING NABOBS.(The Talk of the Town)(rhetorical style of Spiro Agnew considered against the media coverage of current day issues)
In the fall of 1969, Richard Nixon surveyed his domestic enemies and appointed Spiro T. Agnew, his Vice-President, to the post of White
House Torquemada. There would come a day, not far off, when Agnew would have to plead nolo contendere to a charge of tax evasion, which would force his resignation and replacement by Gerald Ford, but this was his moment. Wielding a rhetorical style that might be described as "surrealist-alliterative," Agnew denounced opponents of the war in Vietnam as "an effete corps of impudent snobs"--as "ideological eunuchs," "professional anarchists," and (strangely, wonderfully) "vultures who sit in trees." Never before or since has a ...
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