Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...write in reply to what I feel were inaccurate remarks made about me by Chris Hagert in "Why Vote" (The Crimson, Oct. 30). In it, Hagert mentions me as a "young Agnew", exaggerates my Cambridge School Committee Campaign funding way out of proportion, and implies my only interests are long range and material gain. I must say that I not only resent being compared to an incompetent convicted felon like Agnew for no justifiable reason, but I also resent Hagert's reporting on my campaign without checking his facts or interviewing...
...Agnew's prediction that he would not receive fair treatment in the courts has proved to be true. His punishment for a felony is a mockery of fairness and proves that "justice for all" really means "justice for most, unwarranted mercy...
Among the unique and troubling aspects of the nation's political crisis is that President Nixon's impeachment now would place in the White House for three long years a man who had not been elected to national office. Since the resignation of former Vice President Spiro Agnew three weeks ago, there have been two possible successors to Nixon on the scene: his Vice President-designate Gerald Ford, or, should Nixon's departure come before Ford is confirmed, House Speaker Carl Albert. An Administration headed by either could not fail to seem somehow less legitimate than...
...legal experts to study how the House should proceed, if the holder of either office resigned or had to be impeached. As a result, the House was able to begin action on Ford's nomination and Nixon's possible impeachment without public wrangling. Also, Albert rebuffed Spiro Agnew's attempt to use the House to block the court proceedings against...
...After Agnew resigned and the Secret Service agents arrived to protect him as next in line to Nixon, Albert was trying to speed the day when they would no longer be needed. "Jerry," he told his friend Ford, "I would vote to confirm you today." Because of the scandal-ridden climate of the times, however, Albert felt (and Ford agreed) that he had to order the Judiciary Committee to be thorough in its investigation of Ford. But he rebuffed Democratic partisans who demanded that he delay House action until after the Senate acts. He explained: "I think I have...