The Press: Spoofing Spiro

Television newsmen last week were still viewing Vice President Agnew's attacks on the press with alarm, but one unelected elite—the humor columnists —was beginning to relax and enjoy it. "Boy, you guys have put me back in business," Art Buchwald told Administration Communications Director Herb Klein shortly after Agnew's Des Moines speech. "Where do I send the wine?"

In one column, Buchwald squelched rumors that Vice President Agnew was planning to dump Richard Nixon in 1972. "A spokesman for the Vice President," he wrote, "told me that Mr. Agnew was very satisfied with...

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