Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew's crimes will divert attention from the Watergate affair, and in Seymour M. Lipset's words, "This, combined with the Mideast war, will go a long way to taking Nixon off the hook." Number two's resignation probably forecloses the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Number...
...Agnew, his face drawn and his hands trembling, admitted to the court that he received payments in 1967 which he "failed to report for the purposes of income taxation." He said he knew the money should have been reported...
Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 told the court that the Justice Department investigation of Maryland politics "established a pattern of substantial cash payments to the defendant Agnew during the period when he served as governor of Maryland [1966-1968] in return for engineering contracts with the State of Maryland...
...statement to Hoffman, Agnew denied that any payments he received influenced his official actions as governor. "My acceptance of contributions was part of a long-established pattern of political fund-raising in the state," he said. "At no time have I enriched myself at the expense of the public trust...
...Agnew said his decision to resign and plead no contest was based on "my firm belief that the public interest requires swift disposition of the problems which are facing...