Mr. Agnew Goes Home Again

The foreign press group is assembled at a cocktail party given by Ambassador Henry Tasca at the Athens Hilton for Vice President Agnew. As I join one group a newsman for a major U.S. network is complaining that he is fresh out of adjectives to describe Mr. Agnew’s reception in Greece. “Tepid,” “apathetic,” “perfunctory,” “studied”—he’s used them all. That’s to be the attitude of the foreign press, particularly the American correspondents.

Next morning we’re up early, headed for the town of Gargaliani, birthplace of Spiro Agnew’s father. We careen along a hilly road lined with lemon trees, pines, eucalyptus and olive groves westward toward the Ionian Sea. Our driver attacks each curve like Fangio. He may be comforted by the five religious medals that swing from his dashboard; his passengers are not.

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The foreign press group is assembled at a cocktail party given by Ambassador Henry Tasca at the Athens Hilton for Vice President Agnew. As I join one group a newsman for a major U.S. network is complaining that he is fresh out of adjectives to describe Mr. Agnew’s reception in Greece. “Tepid,” “apathetic,” “perfunctory,” “studied”—he’s used them all. That’s to be the attitude of the foreign press, particularly the American correspondents.

Next morning we’re up early, headed for the town of Gargaliani, birthplace of Spiro Agnew’s father. We careen along a hilly road lined with lemon trees, pines, eucalyptus and olive groves westward toward the Ionian Sea. Our driver attacks each curve like Fangio. He may be comforted by the five religious medals that swing from his dashboard; his passengers are not.