Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other examinations into the wheat deal are still in progress, however. Vice President Spiro Agnew last week announced that the FBI was investigating whether any large U.S. exporters had made illegal profits in the deal. That surprising concession led newsmen to check the FBI, where they were told no such probe had been directed. One day later, the FBI did get such an order from the Justice Department, creating a debate over whether this was done only because Agnew had mistakenly said it was under way or whether Agnew had merely misunderstood the timing. The Commodity Exchange Administration...
...bringing him to the people. But what does one hear from these men and women (females who are either family members or hold the crusading title, "Consumer Affairs Adviser?") Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz accuses McGovern of lying about the U.S.-Soviet Grain Deal, and days later Spiro Agnew announces an FBI investigation on the same topic (centering around the original charges made by McGovern). John Connally talks campaign money and Democrats-for-Nixon, but nothing else. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney travels to Pennsylvania and engages in political mud-slinging with Democratic Governor Milton Shapp. Secretary...
...fond of the Horatio Alger cast to his life, but there is one milestone to go: he is not yet a millionaire. He is on the way, however, as shown by financial statements released last week by the White House on both the President and Vice President Spiro Agnew. The first such public accounting since 1969 notes that the President's net worth, thanks largely to his real estate investments-and inflation-has risen from $596,900 to $765,118. Nixon's assets...
...Agnew's financial position is similarly uncomplicated...
...Thus Agnew, on his salary of $62,500 a year and $10,000 for expenses has in 3½ years increased his net worth by $87,166, to a total of $198,250. Clearly, the old saw that men leave the White House poorer than they come in is no longer true...