The Story on Agnew’s Staff

A few months ago I reviewed a pair of books on Spiro Agnew for this journal. The response from the reading public was as you would expect non-electric. My office was flooded with two letters, one of them from the only daughter of my maternal grandmother. From the Office of the Vice President of the United States, however, I heard not once, not twice but three times that Agnew’s staff was “upset” by the piece.

Needless to say, my flabber was gasted. I had not intended to draw blood from the Vice President. More pertinent, I had no idea that it was within my power to do so. But there it was, Agnew’s staff was upset over what one of them described with wild inaccuracy as an attack on their boss.

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Neal B. Freeman

Neal B. Freeman, businessman and journalist, was a director of National Review Inc. for 38 years.

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A few months ago I reviewed a pair of books on Spiro Agnew for this journal. The response from the reading public was as you would expect non-electric. My office was flooded with two letters, one of them from the only daughter of my maternal grandmother. From the Office of the Vice President of the United States, however, I heard not once, not twice but three times that Agnew’s staff was “upset” by the piece.

Needless to say, my flabber was gasted. I had not intended to draw blood from the Vice President. More pertinent, I had no idea that it was within my power to do so. But there it was, Agnew’s staff was upset over what one of them described with wild inaccuracy as an attack on their boss.