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united states flew to california to give a speech. it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die hard fans. people who would follow him until the end of the earth. and that was crucial at that moment in his political life, because just a few weeks earlier, the wall street journal was first to report that that same vice president, spiro agnew, he was under federal criminal investigation for potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news, for obvious reasons, to the vice president, and he was just completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california september 29th, 1973, to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and, um, these women were hard core activists. as a group, generally speaking, they were quite right wing and quite devoted to spiro agnew. agnew was seen as ....
Constituents in that district were able to show up and say, you have to side with us. and we were able to help limit the harm from this member of congress. we re going to try and do that in every single one of the districts. sometimes we ll get them to go on the record, sometimes they ll vote against us. so it s up to the constituents to hold them accountable and make sure there s a price to pay for their extremism. over the past six years you ve been involved in this organizing effort that started small and turned into this big thing, dowless feel like there are big lessons learned in terms of what works, what s effective, and things you thought might work but didn t and things that have been more effective than you thought. we always say pictures or it didn t happen. you can call your representative, 1 of the 18, and they ll have a staffer taking down your message saying we re really concerned ....