Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, Ford had seriously considered winding up his political career in 1974. He has often said his highest ambition was to become Speaker of the House, and it did not look as if the Republicans were going to control the House any time soon. But then Spiro Agnew was forced to resign as Vice President, and Ford was made an offer he could not refuse. Although former Treasury Secretary John Connally may have been the President's first choice, Ford had the right look to Nixon. He had never wavered in his loyalty to the President; ever since they...
...arrogant Mr. Sinatra doesn't like the press, just as his friend the arrogant Mr. Agnew didn't like it, or the arrogant Mr. Nixon. What this shows is how ungrateful these people are for the very institutions that enabled them to climb to social, political and economic heights in the first place. If it weren't for the free press we would have long since had a ruling class in America, and these men would certainly have been peasants, not aristocrats. The self-made man is a phenomenon possible only in a free society. How pathetic...
...indictment of John Connally in the milk-fund scandal last week inspired a small shudder in Washington, a fear for what might have been. So much has happened in the past nine months that it is almost forgotten that Richard Nixon's first choice to succeed Spiro Agnew as his Vice President was not Gerald Ford but Connally. To contemplate the indictment of the Vice President, or even merely the suspicion of charges aired, in the same week that articles of impeachment were voted against the President is a scenario that almost shatters the mind. By the best accounts...
...Washington grand jury indicted former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, who was once a Nixon favorite and was the President's initial private choice to succeed Spiro Agnew as Vice President, on charges of accepting bribes, perjury and conspiring to obstruct justice. The indictment accused Connally of accepting $10,000 from a dairy cooperative in exchange for his urging the Administration to raise federal milk-price supports in March 1971 and of later lying about the deal...
...resigning after the House vote, sparing the country and himself a Senate trial. But some Congressmen argue that if a condition of his leaving office is that he publicly acknowledge -and not contest-the case against him, Nixon will disappear from the scene as thoroughly as has Spiro Agnew...