Maryland: The Athenian Touch
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Agnew sweetened the honeymoon still further by adopting a bipartisan approach to patronage and consulting closely with Democratic legislators. An able former Baltimore County executive, he knows the arts of compromise and deferment. A number of important measures remain to be enacted, including reorganization of the state's administrative machinery and a comprehensive traffic-safety program. Meanwhile, the Democrats and Agnewwho, appropriately, is the first Governor of Greek descent in U.S. historyhave shown that a Socratic luster is still to be found in Crabtown.
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