Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal paper that exulted over Agnew's fall was the Berkshire Eagle. It called the resignation a "thunderclap of good news" that "removed from the proximity of the Oval Office a grotesque and long dead albatross whose reek was besmirching the American image everywhere." From the right wing, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader Editor-Publisher William Loeb let stand a preresignation editorial that had blasted news leaks damaging to Agnew. In a brief updating statement, Loeb voiced his paper's "regret" that the "vicious distorters in the press now have a chance to get off the hook...
Most middle-road and conservative papers spoke for those who had believed in Agnew's innocence or who had felt that he was being treated unfairly. Said the Atlanta Journal: "It was as if Santa Claus had been revealed as a dirty old man." Detroit News Columnist Pete Waldmeir declared that "Spiro Agnew owes us all an apology. He took our trust and ground it into the dirt. He treated us like fools, thumbed his nose at duty, honor, country...
...Louis Globe-Democrat admitted its "disappointment that Agnew has been dishonest in more than his tax reports. He attempted to deceive the American public with his protestations of innocence and his insistence that he would not resign ... Most of the 'damn lies' about Agnew seemed to have been told...
...McGinniss, after a visit to the Watergate hearings, returns with the unsurprising news of dissension in the Senate committee and its staff. Short pieces on what people were saying about Spiro Agnew in a Baltimore bar and around Palm Springs suggest that reporters who sit around and listen might be better off going out and digging...
These stories were also rendered obsolete by Agnew's resignation a day after New Times hit the newsstands. The cover picture, Agnew's face superimposed on a golf ball, gained new force-leaving aside questions of taste. The supporting story-a two-page list of assorted choices to succeed the Vice President -is timely but frivolous. Eugene McCarthy nominates Pat Nixon, Cartoonist Jules Feiffer likes Bebe Rebozo, Senator William Saxbe votes for himself...