Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect Republicans, Democrats, rights, lefts, ins and apparently outs. Sometimes, to keep them all separated but still within view of each other, he will have to change a person's table 15 times before he or she arrives. The touchiest situation now is between the Nixon and Agnew men. Back on that same Friday, Paul maneuvered Vic Gold, Agnew's former press secretary and current White House nemesis, a respectable distance from Ken Clawson, a Nixon aide...
...days later Agnew held a televised press conference in which he answered tough questions in a forthright manner. The performance won praise even from Agnew's critics...
Private Détente. Agnew and Reston were also in touch two months ago. At that time, the columnist played a small but significant role in formulating Agnew's response to the charges swirling around him. On the night of Aug. 6, Reston advised Agnew that his initial short statement claiming innocence of any wrongdoing would not be enough, that the Vice President's supporters would expect him to stand up and fight...
According to conventional wisdom, James Reston of the New York Times ought to rank high on Spiro Agnew's list of least favorite people. As early as the 1968 campaign, the Times infuriated Agnew by questioning his fitness "to stand one step away from the presidency." Reston, as vice president and chief political columnist of the paper, is a pillar of the Eastern liberal Establishment press that Agnew has been excoriating since 1969; the Times has often replied in stiff editorials. But during his current ordeal, Agnew has turned to Reston for counsel and a sympathetic...
Under Reston's byline, the Times on Sept. 28 carried the first-and so far the only-inside view of Agnew's thoughts and plans since the Vice President learned in early August that he was the subject of a Justice Department investigation. Although Reston did not name Agnew as his source, his piece was obviously based on an interview. "He has been destroyed politically and knows it," Reston wrote. "His view is that he was invited [by the Justice Department] to plead guilty to some charges, but this, in his view, was a cop-out." The story...