Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean Agnew, a fourth-year graduate student in History and member of the steering committee of the Graduate Student Panel, said yesterday there is "no question" that graduate students are already feeling a "tightening" in the availability of funds...
...indication of how more conservative Vermonters are feeling about the President these days came at that Republican dinner in Montpelier. For laughs-and there were plenty-they auctioned off a 1972 Nixon-Agnew button. It fetched only...
...Maryland Bar Association saw it, Spiro Agnew's uncontested conviction for tax evasion, along with the lengthy list of charges that were not going to be prosecuted, clearly added up to the sort of "moral turpitude" that required disbarment. Agnew himself admitted that he deserved to be temporarily suspended as a practicing lawyer...
Whatever the outcome, the Agnew case-to say nothing of the long roster of Watergate-tainted lawyers-suggests that the legal profession has not been notably successful in preventing ethical lapses. Nor has it policed itself very vigorously. Said one disgusted delegate to the American Bar Association's annual meeting last summer: "The time is upon us, gentlemen, to belly up to the buzz saw and do something about this...
...that made some of the world worry about the stability of America and question its capacity to play a global role. Variously disbelieving, saddened, sickened and cynical, many Americans, too, lost faith in leaders who had betrayed their trust. One who had most blatantly done so was Spiro T. Agnew, an acerbic apostle of righteousness who had thrived as Nixon's Vice President on strident demands for harsh judgments against all who disagreed with his own rigid concepts of acceptable ideology and permissible?but never permissive?behavior. Then, faced with overwhelming evidence of his own criminal corruptness and petty greed...