Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chin up, eyes level, voice resonant with righteous indignation, Spiro Agnew sent his tormentors a message last week: "I am innocent of the charges against me. I will not resign if indicted, I will not resign if indicted!" His audience, a national convention of Republican women in Los Angeles, erupted in wild applause, cheering and cries of "Right on!," and some even danced on tables. The message, carried nationwide on TV, got across: any reports that the Vice President of the U.S. was about to quit under fire were greatly exaggerated...
Fire Target. Far from quitting, Agnew was attacking more vigorously than ever, and his target was no less than the Justice Department of his own Administration and, by implication, Republican Attorney General Elliot Richardson and even Republican President Richard Nixon. The specific target of his fire was Henry Petersen, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, who is supervising the investigation of Agnew's conduct while a Maryland official (see box following page). But Agnew, as part of the Nixon Administration, knows better than most that Petersen is hardly a sovereign agent, that Richardson by his own admission...
...Agnew has labeled published allegations that he conspired to extort bribes from contractors, sometimes under the guise of political campaign contributions as "damn lies...
...Agnew has repeatedly denounced news leaks regarding the investigation and has frequently attributed them to Justice Department sources...
...press conference yesterday, President Nixon said that he has been briefed on the investigation of the vice president and that the allegations against Agnew "are serious and not frivolous...