Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precedents are slight, the uncertainties legion. But Vice President Spiro Agnew's situation now seems sure to force the resolution of a number of long open constitutional questions. Last week TIME asked six experts in constitutional law and history to discuss together the complex issues and implications of the case. The six: Raoul Berger, 72, Harvard Law School Senior Fellow and authority on impeachment and Executive privilege; Alexander Bickel, 48, Yale...
...whether Petersen has been the source of some news leaks regarding the Agnew investigation, as Agnew claims, there is no doubt that he has. But Petersen has not been, by any means, the sole source of news leaks in the case...
...Agnew claimed that the Wall Street Journal had been given a copy of a letter from the Justice Department notifying him that he was under investigation even before he had received it. That was flatly denied by Norman Miller, chief of the Journal's Washington bureau. Said Miller: "The Vice President is in error. Our story was not based on a letter...
...Petersen, father of seven, he apparently was spending much of the weekend on Chesapeake Bay in his 26-foot cruiser, and at least initially was unreachable for his reaction to Agnew's assault - if, indeed, he was aware...
Whatever Petersen's shortcomings, they do not prove Agnew's more serious charge: that Petersen is part of an effort to restore the Justice Department's tarnished reputation by netting Agnew as a redeeming "trophy." Watergate may indeed have been bungled by the Justice Department, and this puts pressure on the department to avoid any impression that it could be politically influenced to be part of a cover-up in Agnew's case. While Agnew targets Petersen he is, of course, implicitly involving Petersen's superiors, both Richard son and the President, in this conspiracy...