Spiro Agnew
Sounds
 SpiroAgnew68RNC-'ImprobabilityOf
ThisMoment'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Agnew addresses the 1968 Republican National Convention after being selected by his party to run as Vice President on the Nixon presidential ticket.
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Agnew_on_war_demonstrators.wav - A landmark speech, one which began a unique career in vice presidential speechmaking, where the V.P. supposes to explain & assess the motivations & intentions of the what he calls "the young", wherein he first uses the phrase "elite corp of impudent snobs".
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SpiroAgnew6910-Moratorium.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - The beginning of a speech crafted to deal with the political and social fallout of the speech archived immediately above, wherein the Vice President, using stronger language than in his previous speech, attacks the moratorium called for by leaders of the anti-war movement.
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SpiroAgnew6910-ATimeToBeDisturbed.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Agnew further attacks the American anti-war youth movement with a declaration that "if in challenging (the leaders of the youth movement), we polarize the American people, then I say it's time for a postive polarization."
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SpiroAgnew6910-'ImpudentSnobs'Defined.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - The V.P. provides a detailed definition of one of his most famous phrases.
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SpiroAgnew691110-'TheSilent
YoungMajority'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - A criticism of sensationalism in journalism and the lack of attention given by them to a segment of the society which, borrowing from the Nixon lexicon, he defines in this speech.
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SpiroAgnew691113DesMoines-TVNews.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Another landmark speech where the Vice President launches a scathing attack of television news coverage.
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SpiroAgnew691120Alabama-
OnDesMoinesSpeech.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Another speech crafted to deal with the political and social fallout of a preceding speech, one in which the V.P. systematically attacks each of its major critics.
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SpiroAgnew691120Alabama-
OnNewspapers.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - In this speech, the Vice President turns his guns away from television journalism to aim at newspapers in America.
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SpiroAgnew7002NYDrug,Chemical&Associated
TradesAssociation-'GreatBoon'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Agnew jokes that he is responsible for a great increase in tranquilizer and aspirin usage by network executives.
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SpiroAgnew7002NYDrug,Chemical&Associated
TradesAssociation-'WeAreInvolved'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - From the same speech as the above, the Vice President comments on the growing mood of isolationism in "certain intellectual and political circles".
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SpiroAgnew7002StLouis-
'TheRankAndFileDemocrat'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - An attack on liberal Democrats aimed at convincing the more conservative of that party to join the Republicans because "there's lots of room in the end".
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SpiroAgnew7002StLouis-DraftDodgers.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - An attack on draft dodgers, Senator Fulbright, "deserters dens in Canada and Sweden', and a long list of dissident organizations.
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SpiroAgnew700428FL-Yale
FacultyDissidence.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - The Vice President places the blame for student dissidence in America "not with the young people on the campuses, but with those who so miserably fail to guide them".
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SpiroAgnew700508-PrevaricationOf
SpeechAfterKentState.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Having planned to launch another attack upon the anti-war youth movement in America, Agnew declares he will "tone down the rhetoric" in light of the President's statement that it was "time that the rhetoric should become cool" due to the hot political climate that had just resulted from the deaths of four anti-war protestors at Kent State University.
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SpiroAgnew700522Houston-
'VicePresidentialRhetoric'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - The Vice President defends himself against growing criticism that he should "cool it" with regard to the tone and rhetoric used in his speeches.
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SpiroAgnew700522Houston-MediaRhetoric.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - From the same speech as the above, the Vice President turns the criticism levied against himself around to assign the blame for inflammatory remarks back upon his critics.
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SpiroAgnew700528NYC-
Cambodia&TheEconomy.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - After joking about his recent accident on a gold course, the V.P. speaks at some length upon U.S. involvement in Cambodia and the effects of it and other factors upon the American economy.
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SpiroAgnew70Fall-'PamperedProdigies'
&'ProfessionalPessimists'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Agnew attacks the "Radical Liberals" in the Senate and the "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism" that criticise the Nixon administration's policies.
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SpiroAgnew70Fall-'PervasivePolicy
OfPermissiveness'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - A criticism of the state of American youth and the social attitudes he blames for creating its problems.
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SpiroAgnew70Fall-'RadicalLiberals'.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - A jocular definition of a popular political term.
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SpiroAgnew70Fall-ElitismList.mp3 (Archived 7/18/01) - Agnew reads a comedic questionnaire designed to determine one's eligibility to be called an "elitist".
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