Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next morning Richardson and Petersen met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to report that they had been unable to work out a compromise settlement with Agnew's lawyers. Exactly who had sought a compromise is still un clear. The Justice Department implies that the bargaining was proposed by Agnew's attorneys. Agnew's camp angrily insists that it was the department that offered a deal...
Constitutional Dilemma. Richardson had gone along with a search for an out-of-court settlement because, he explained, he wanted to avoid "a constitutional dilemma of potentially serious consequence to the nation"? the dilemma of whether or not Agnew, as a sitting Vice President, could be indicted before being impeached...
...Justice officials and Agnew's lawyers had been unable to agree on a bargain under which the Vice President would resign and be charged with a lesser offense than the evidence warranted...
...thinks I'm a big fry and that I'll help him along in his career. They're taking [as witnesses] every individual they possibly can and giving every kind of immunity that they could possibly have ? people I've never had any dealings with in my life." Agnew said that Beall was out to make him the villain of current history. Said the Vice President: "I don't want any part of writing this part of history...
Extraordinary Session. Meanwhile a curious vigil was being mounted in Albert's anteroom. In the Senate, Barry Goldwater and Minority Leader Hugh Scott had got wind of the extraordinary session, and came over to sit outside Albert's office as a visible gesture of moral support for Agnew. They had to leave before the Vice President came out, but Agnew later phoned his thanks to Scott. "It was generous of you and Barry," he said. "These are the kinds of things that don't go unnoticed...