Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Notable Exception. "I don't think that I have any legislation to report," said Agnew. That got an encouraging laugh, and the Vice President went on to talk earnestly about his crisis, pretty much repeating what he had told the House leaders ? with one notable exception. He made no mention of his charge that U.S. Attorney George Beall was out to get him in Baltimore. Sitting in the room with the Vice President was George's older brother ? Maryland's Senator J. Glenn Beall...
...next day the younger Beall's grand jury finally began to receive the evidence against Agnew that Justice had been patiently assembling for months...
Courthouse in Baltimore were sealed off by deputy federal marshals, who coordinated their movements by walkie-talkie. Cooperative witnesses were given safe-conduct out of the building by a route that eluded reporters. But William Muth, 63, a Baltimore politician and former fund raiser for Agnew, met a different fate after he had cited the Fifth Amendment and refused to say anything at all. Muth was turned loose at the courthouse garage entrance where the newsmen were massed ? a procedure similar to providing a Christian a path to freedom that led directly through the lions...
...Listen," Muth told the newsmen who surged around him. "I believe in Ted Agnew. The day they make me stop believing, I'm going to take down my American flag and put it away." He explained that his flag flies 24 hours a day, spotlit at night. As for all the hullabaloo about Agnew, Muth declared: "It's bullshit. You may quote...
With the backing of Attorney Ger eral Richardson, Beall was pushing for a quick indictment of Agnew because the time during which the Vice President can be charged is rapidly running out. Under the federal statute of limitations, grand juries may indict a man for most noncapital offenses only within a five-year period following the crime...