Augusta College - White Columns Yearbook (Augusta, GA)

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m - ' Well things didn ' t work out that way. Not with the Viet Nam war, inllalion with a rece; sion (I thini this is a first), forced school bussing, labor problems, student unrest, terrorist bombings and the shape of the Paris Peace Talks table. Anyway, Nixon ran for reelection and his chances were ver good ... Nixon gained in popularity by visiting Russia and by opening up relations with the Peoples Republic of China (Red China). This noble gesture (recognition of Red China in the U.N.) cost Taiwan its seat. Nixon ' s chances for reelection in 72 looked better when George Wallace was shot (same thing happened in 68 when Senator Bobby Kennedy was murdered). True to predictions. Nixon and Ag- new won by the largest margin ever. Their victory was complete . . or was if Agnew was forced to resign, but Nixon hung on. However the breakin at the Democratic National Headquar- ters was linked to him. The impeach- ment process brought more pressure on Nixon until August 8, 1S)74 when Ni- xon resigned. Who now is the winner? Republican. ' Democrat? Independent? Nol We arel Our Constitution Mill works now on with Historv. IS MAiHi The Editor

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1:° I •d ' Boy . . . have things changed in the political field. Remember when no one knew who Agnew was, or what it was? And Nixon wasn ' t going lo be kicked around anymore? My how things have changed. The man for law and order (Mr. John Mitchell) has been indicted, the Vice President pleaded no contest to federal tax evasion charges and subsquently resigned. Time was when people would trample over each other just to look at Spiro T. Agnew. Why, even in Augusta this stalwart Repub- lican was warmly welcomed by We Southern Democrats Nixon stumped the cities, looking lor votes; uhile in 68 at the Chicago Democratic convention, we showed ourselves that war was possible in the United States, even without a I ' oreign devil. The Republican Convention in comparsion was a dull bore. George Wallace made it big in the South in the 68 election, and Nixon won by a slight majority reminiscent of his margin of defeat to John F. Ken- nedy in 1960. Nixon and . gneu were sworn in and we were going to let them brjng us together.

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Old, staring, grim faces, and one remembers the time when a fully adult, useful man did ,not wear his hair long or a beard. He usually had his hair shorn short in the style commonly known as the white side wall, the flat top, or the G.I. 30