Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew adviser half-jokingly described the Vice President's delicate position amid continuing talk of President Nixon's possible impeachment or resignation. Since Agnew might suddenly find himself President-but can hardly escape from Nixon's shadow now -he must follow a strategy of demonstrating his loyalty while asserting his independence. Yet he must not appear to be talking with a forked tongue-and the Vice President, as everyone knows, likes to talk. "We're in the most sensitive, most sacrosanct area of Government affairs," says an Agnew intimate. "The Vice President has to avoid...
...Agnew has kept his balance...
...President could not have asked for stronger support last week from his No. 2 man. "I've got total confidence in the President's integrity," Agnew told an interviewer. He denounced Nixon's critics for "an incredible storm of personal abuse." Speaking to the Bull Elephants Club, a collection of G.O.P. congressional aides, he declared: "I believe it is important that we not be stampeded into protesting entirely too much...
...turned against Richard Nixon and declared that the Watergate mess "smells." Goldwater was wryly saluted by Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, as "the liberals' favorite conservative." Not so. J. Edgar Hoover now looks upright and independent by comparison to L. Patrick Gray III. Even Vice President Agnew inspired the Washington Post to contemplate the prospect of a Nixon retirement and observe that his successor might not be so bad: "Many Democrats [might support] him out of resignation or relief...
...Nixon resigns, should Vice President Agnew also resign? No. If there is one thing the Vice President can back up, it's that he doesn't know what the hell is going on at the White House...