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...current, barely concealed antagonism between President Nixon and Vice President Agnew is a reminder that the nation's top two officials seldom get along. That is not the way it was supposed to be. The founding fathers not only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent...
Short Visits. Connally's getting-to-know-you campaign could hardly be better timed. With Vice President Spiro Agnew's political future suddenly in deep trouble, the party is without a front runner for its 1976 nomination. Though Connally's staff insists that his key speaking engagements were set before Agnew's problems became known and that he is thus not using the Vice President's political wounds to his own advantage, Connally is clearly not about to shrink from the possibility of taking over the party's powerful conservative wing...
...youngest Republican says that he has never discussed with President Nixon the possibility of succeeding Agnew if the office of vice president should become vacant. However, he has strongly urged the President not to choose a weak "caretaker" No. 2 under any circumstances. Coming from the party's leading non-wallflower, that hardly sounded like a Shermanesque bowing...
...expect Republicans, Democrats, rights, lefts, ins and apparently outs. Sometimes, to keep them all separated but still within view of each other, he will have to change a person's table 15 times before he or she arrives. The touchiest situation now is between the Nixon and Agnew men. Back on that same Friday, Paul maneuvered Vic Gold, Agnew's former press secretary and current White House nemesis, a respectable distance from Ken Clawson, a Nixon aide...
According to conventional wisdom, James Reston of the New York Times ought to rank high on Spiro Agnew's list of least favorite people. As early as the 1968 campaign, the Times infuriated Agnew by questioning his fitness "to stand one step away from the presidency." Reston, as vice president and chief political columnist of the paper, is a pillar of the Eastern liberal Establishment press that Agnew has been excoriating since 1969; the Times has often replied in stiff editorials. But during his current ordeal, Agnew has turned to Reston for counsel and a sympathetic...