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The name of a politician of this ethnicity appears on a TV in an attack ad that features a man laughing hysterically before saying “This would be funny if it weren’t so serious.” An archbishop of this ethnicity stands to the left of MLK on a 1965 cover of Life magazine that lauds him for marching (10[1])at Selma. A governor of this ethnicity blamed H. Rap (10[1])Brown for inciting the 1967 Cambridge Riots. During a 1969 speech in (-5[1])Des Moines, (10[1])that politician (10[1])of this ethnicity used a phrase (10[1])coined by William Safire (“sapphire”) to characterize the media as (10[1])“effete (10[1])(“uh-FEET”) snobs.” (10[2])The (10[1])phrase “nattering (10[1])nabobs (10[1]-5[1])(“NAY-bobs”) of (10[1])negativism” (10[1]-5[2])was used by a (10[1])Maryland governor of this ethnicity (10[1])who resigned from his highest post after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges. For 10 points, give this ethnicity of Nixon’s first vice president Spiro Agnew, (10[2])as well as Aristotle Onassis. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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