At an informal White House gathering last spring, President Nixon delivered himself of a paean to his press secretary Ron Ziegler. Nixon added that Ziegler had the second toughest job in the country. "The toughest job in the country," he said, "is, of course, being press secretary to the Vice President."
There is a barbed edge of truth in Nixon's jest. As the peripatetic Spiro Agnew sets out on yet another international jaunt, this time to Greece, Turkey and Iran, few men would envy anyone the task of handling the Vice President's press corps—small, hand-picked lot though they are.* Will Agnew make...
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