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...days later Agnew held a televised press conference in which he answered tough questions in a forthright manner. The performance won praise even from Agnew's critics...
Private Détente. Agnew and Reston were also in touch two months ago. At that time, the columnist played a small but significant role in formulating Agnew's response to the charges swirling around him. On the night of Aug. 6, Reston advised Agnew that his initial short statement claiming innocence of any wrongdoing would not be enough, that the Vice President's supporters would expect him to stand up and fight...
Under Reston's byline, the Times on Sept. 28 carried the first-and so far the only-inside view of Agnew's thoughts and plans since the Vice President learned in early August that he was the subject of a Justice Department investigation. Although Reston did not name Agnew as his source, his piece was obviously based on an interview. "He has been destroyed politically and knows it," Reston wrote. "His view is that he was invited [by the Justice Department] to plead guilty to some charges, but this, in his view, was a cop-out." The story...
...Agnew-Reston relationship is no sudden thing. They first met during the 1968 campaign, when Reston arranged an interview between the candidate and Times editors. After Agnew began his attacks on the press a year later, Reston recalls, "I went to see him and I said, I've never had a feud with anybody in Washington in 30 years. I don't believe in feuds. I think it is our responsibility to stay in touch with people who have authority in the Government...
...result over the years has been a series of what Agnew Press Secretary J. Marsh Thompson calls "heart-to-heart talks." Reston, unable to secure a private interview with Richard Nixon since the Oregon primary in 1968, has used his private détente with Agnew to stay abreast of Administration thinking. (Henry Kissinger and Melvin Laird have also "kept in touch," Reston says.) Agnew, in turn, has benefited from rather gentle treatment in Reston's influential column. Last February, for instance, Reston quoted approvingly a remark Agnew made in a speech before the Minnesota Press Association: "The fact...