Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew's ordeal in court ended ironically with a scene of comic confusion...
...Judge Hoffman left the bench, the bailiff naturally ordered everyone to stand. The sudden movement and noise startled the Secret Service agent who was escorting Agnew out. "Everybody sit down!" he shouted. Some sat down for the former Vice President, but most remained standing for the judge...
...Agnew promptly received a letter of condolence from President Nixon praising his services and saying, "I have been deeply saddened by this whole course of events." But within an hour of Agnew's resignation, the White House was dissociating itself from the ex-Vice President. When someone asked an assistant to Press Secretary Ron Ziegler to run off some copies of Agnew's statement to the court, he was turned down. "It's not our statement," the aide said pointedly...
...these strained circumstances, there remained the details of closing down a career. Agnew will retain his Secret Service protection for a time. The Senate voted to keep his Capitol Hill staff on the payroll for another month. Some aides had been with him since the days in Baltimore, and there were tears in the room when they heard the news. Like any man who had just been fired, Agnew cleared out his desk and wrote some thank you notes. And he began working on a speech about the whole affair that he will deliver to the nation early this week...
...sudden settlement eliminated the danger of a constitutional crisis if, as expected, Agnew's claim that a sitting Vice President could not be prosecuted had gone to the Supreme Court. The agreement also prevented a decision on a basic issue involving the freedom of the press-the right of newsmen to preserve the secrecy of their sources (see THE PRESS...