Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew get a fair trial if he is indicted...
...overwhelming majority of legal experts consider a fair trial for Agnew entirely possible. Stanford's Kaplan thinks the prejudicial damage is "not even close by the standards we usually apply to criminal law." He cites the Charles Manson case, in which damaging mid-trial publicity included a personal verdict of guilty by President Nixon. "Even there," notes Kaplan, "the court did not have much trouble deciding he could get a fair trial." Manson was, of course, convicted. But Philip Berrigan and the rest of the Harrisburg Seven got off, even after their alleged conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger...
...current, barely concealed antagonism between President Nixon and Vice President Agnew is a reminder that the nation's top two officials seldom get along. That is not the way it was supposed to be. The founding fathers not only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent...
Short Visits. Connally's getting-to-know-you campaign could hardly be better timed. With Vice President Spiro Agnew's political future suddenly in deep trouble, the party is without a front runner for its 1976 nomination. Though Connally's staff insists that his key speaking engagements were set before Agnew's problems became known and that he is thus not using the Vice President's political wounds to his own advantage, Connally is clearly not about to shrink from the possibility of taking over the party's powerful conservative wing...
...youngest Republican says that he has never discussed with President Nixon the possibility of succeeding Agnew if the office of vice president should become vacant. However, he has strongly urged the President not to choose a weak "caretaker" No. 2 under any circumstances. Coming from the party's leading non-wallflower, that hardly sounded like a Shermanesque bowing...