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Promptly at 2 p.m. the lawyers for Agnew filed in, then Richardson and the Justice contingent. The men shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, with one notable exception. Assistant U.S. Attorney Barnet D. Skolnik, who had argued vehemently that Agnew should be jailed, stalked past the Agnew men without a word...
Moments later Agnew entered the room, and while all eyes were upon him -he looked older somehow, his hair seemed whiter73151;Judah Best slipped away to make a phone call to an associate in Washington. Two minutes later, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had been alerted to be in his office, was delivered a letter signed by Agnew: "I hereby resign the office of Vice President of the United States, effective immediately." (The duty of receiving the resignation of a President or Vice President is an archaic function of Kissinger's office, spelled out by the Presidential Succession...
...Baltimore courtroom, meanwhile, Judge Hoffman, Spiro Agnew, now a simple citizen whose appearance before the bar of justice carried no grave constitutional portents or precedents, and the Attorney General were enacting the script that they had so carefully crafted. The Government said that Agnew had "willfully and knowingly" evaded $9,551.47 in federal taxes on $29,500 in undeclared income. Agnew did not contest the charge, pleading nolo contendere, which Judge Hoffman took pains to point out was equivalent to a guilty plea...
...recommendations on the sentence. "The agreement between the parties now before the court," Richardson began, "is one which must be perceived to be just and honorable, not simply to the parties but to the American people." Richardson said that none of the Government's major witnesses against Agnew had been promised immunity from prosecution, an important point in answering Agnew's once and perhaps future charges that he had been framed by the prosecutors' bargaining to encourage testimony against him. Richardson next entered into evidence the 40-page report of the Government's case against...
...convict Agnew on the basis of the collected evidence, said Richardson, would have taken years, "with potentially disastrous consequences to the vital interests of the United States." Considering this, he argued, it had been wiser to accept a compromise that allowed Agnew to plead no contest to a single charge. Then Richardson frankly admitted that no bargain would have been reached if he had not agreed to enter a plea of leniency for Agnew. But he insisted that leniency was justified-that the Vice President's resignation and acceptance of a conviction for a felony were punishment enough. Richardson...