Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full two months ago, when the first allegations of Spiro Agnew's involvement in an old-fashioned kickback scheme appeared, his political future had ended. The fire-breathing orator, whose appeals for law and order and tighter control of the press had so frightened liberals, was reduced by a flood of corruption charges to a trapped...
Although his choices were few, he continued to scrap like the Agnew of old. He called the charges "damned lies," and toured the country, scoffing at the accusations and asking for support...
Like any American vice president, Agnew's only importance lay in his potential as a presidential hopeful. His resignation's principal effect is merely to open the way for another presidential aspirant to be christened front-runner by President Nixon...
Equally inconsequential, will be the effect of Agnew's resignation on the laws governing the conduct of politicians. No new laws were needed to pin Agnew down: The laws were already on the books...
...will Agnew's resignation prompt the Justice Department to enforce these laws more vigorously? Probably not. The spirit of enforcement, if it indeed exists at Justice, got put there after the embarrassment of the initial Watergate investigation, which uncovered conspiracy limited to seven men. If anything, knocking over a king-pin like Agnew may tend to inject a little complacency into the department...