Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the public is focusing--as rarely before--on the press as a root of major evil, the public still knows almost nothing about the press, and the press is doing precious little that isn't paranoid, shrill or defensive to correct this critical deficiency. Since Vice President Agnew has resigned to escape a jail sentence, it is easier to see--and say--that the press has overreacted to criticism, particularly criticism from on high. Long before Spiro T. Agnew launched his alliterative assault on the press, an earlier vice president, with far more impressive credentials, had staked out criticism...
...against publication, of the Pentagon Papers in June of 1971; the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of the Watergate matter and its endless sequels, from July 1972 to date; and the full-scale campaign by the Committee for the Reelection of the President later by then Vice President Spiro T. Agnew to subpoena "all documents, papers, letters, photographs, audio and visual tapes" and "all manuscripts, notes, tape recordings of communication," and "all drafts, copies and final drafts of stories, columns and/or reports" and "all writings and other forms of record, including drafts, reflecting or related to direct or indirect communications...
...October of 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew asked for virtually the same material from reporters from The Washington Post and other news organizations. He wanted to know who in government was fingering him, so he could deal with them personally or have the President "summarily" fire them...
...know anything about him, except that this is his last day," explained a White House aide curtly. He was referring to the final severance of Spiro T. Agnew from the U.S. Government. Six months to the day after his resignation as Vice President, Agnew and his Government-paid staff of six packed up last week and left the federal office he has occupied in a restored town house across the street from Lafayette Park. They have completed the task of sifting through Agnew's vice-presidential papers, turned some over to the National Archives, donated others to libraries...
After a concerted outcry from Congress, Agnew's Secret Service detail and chauffeured limousine were withdrawn in February, and he has been spotted in recent weeks walking along Northwest Washington's Jackson Place, heading to and from his office. He is nearly always grim-visaged, facing forward and alone. Few of his once close associates have seen much of him lately, though Agnew continues to play an occasional golf or tennis match at two suburban Washington clubs. Friends say he is devoting much of his time to the novel he is writing for Playboy Press. There...