Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew Rejected. As majority leader, O'Neill admits, "I'm a terrifically Democratic partisan." He has shown himself to be a skilled and salty battler with the White House, a role that Speaker Albert has never been able to fulfill because of his natural tendency to avoid controversy. When the President called for cooperation last summer between the Administration and the Congress-and then threatened to use some vetoes -O'Neill cracked: "It was hard to tell whether the President was calling for teamwork-or a scrimmage...
...WONDERED what he meant. A glance at Nixon and Agnew could reveal "taxpaying conservatives" to be a contradiction in terms. Linus Pauling got rid of the Common Cause a couple of years ago. And if conservatives are against "pressuring, harassing, and demanding," then why did I receive this backing-me-against-the-wall letter asking for money? It just didn't make sense. But then in a flash of hindsight it all came clear. They had enclosed a report which "describes the fashion in which ACU has sought to seize the initiative in behalf of the conservative position--not merely...
...fortunes of Spiro T. Agnew spiral steadily downward. He has been off the federal payroll since last Oct. 10, the same day he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of income tax evasion (though his perquisites still include a Government-paid staff of six, a Secret Service detail and a limousine). Friends have been able to raise only $40,000 toward paying his legal bills, which may exceed $200,000. Last week, rejecting Agnew's plea "not to strip me of my means of livelihood," a three-judge panel appointed by the Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that...
...meantime, Agnew hopes to raise some ready cash by selling his suburban Maryland home outside Washington. The asking price for the 9-room Georgian-style house, which Agnew purchased for $190,000 about a year ago: $325,000. Most of the increase is the result of $125,000 worth of "protective improvements" ordered by the Secret Service. The former Vice President is not required to reimburse the Government for such improvements once out of office. Agnew still has not found a buyer, and even if he manages to get the price he is asking, there are still those irksome debts...
...high Neilson rating enjoyed by the Senate Watergate hearings. The agency was tentatively dubbed the Government Office of Depravity (GOD), but this was changed in late August for fear of alienating the crucial religious vote in the 1974 elections to the League of Official Vice (LOV). After the Agnew debacle "Extortion" was added to the name to emphasize its inclusion in the new federal program...