Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reasoner Report. Whither Spiro Agnew? Harry shows us. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
Responding to the Senators, Rockefeller carefully disengaged himself from Spiro Agnew, saying that he had refused a request by the former Vice President to help arrange financing for his novel about political life in Washington. He also noted that John Ehrlichman, the former domestic affairs adviser to Nixon, had written twice to ask for money for his legal expenses. "From a human point of view," Rockefeller testified, "I'm embarrassed to say I didn't answer the letters...
...greater concession of wrongdoing. But there is little likelihood that Nixon could ever bring himself to admit full guilt, though that guilt has been adequately documented by the House Judiciary Committee. Even if indicted, he probably would have fought fiercely to seek an acquittal rather than plea-bargain, Agnew-style. Indeed, Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson offered a cutting observation last week. "Why were we ever stupid enough to think that this awful man would fade away like one of MacArthur's old soldiers?" he asked. "He was always going to be dragged kicking and screaming into oblivion...
...indeed do everything to prevent access. For the sake of history and for the nation's peace of mind, justice should be seen to have been done in Nixon's case; the full and final record should be laid bare, as it was in Spiro Agnew's removal from office...
...notable exception to the back-the-incumbents trend: in Baltimore County, Md., Democratic voters rose up in wrath and routed what had been one of the strongest party machines in the nation for the past century. Corruption has been a way of life in the county, as the Spiro Agnew case dramatized. But the indictment for corruption-and the subsequent resignation-of Democratic County Executive Dale Anderson last spring apparently were too much. The voters defeated ten party regulars, ranging from Frederick L. Dewberry, Anderson's successor, to four candidates for the Baltimore County council...