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...with its investigation and bring in an indictment, should the evidence warrant one, which would stop the statute of limitations from running out. Then, instead of quickly going to trial, and if the Vice President agreed, the Justice Department would give the House of Representatives a chance to impeach Agnew. Only if the House elected not to would Richardson move ahead with the prosecution. Judge Hoffman is expected to rule on the constitutional issue by the end of this month...
Richard Nixon took care to put more distance between himself and his Vice President. Speaking at an informal press conference, Nixon had praise for Agnew's "years of distinguished service as Vice President." But then Nixon fired back at his Vice President, who, by implication, had attacked him in his speech in Los Angeles a few days before. Agnew had accused Nixon's Justice Department of trying to destroy him with "malicious, immoral and illegal" news leaks. Contrary to Agnew's claim in his speech that he was being hounded by trumped-up claims, Nixon said that...
That gave Agnew a chance to retort but instead, speaking at a Republican fund raiser in Chicago, the Vice President sought to ease the tension that was damaging the party by calling Nixon "a great President," and saying: "Thank God we have a man who has faced some of the most unbelievable pressures and handled them...
...Nixon cannot disown Agnew without further angering the conservatives in both parties. A Gallup poll last week showed that only 32% of the nation approved of the way that the President was handling his job, a drop of 6% since the Agnew case erupted and only 1% above his low mark during the depths of Watergate. And a Harris poll reported that 51% of the American people feel that Congress would be justified in beginning impeachment proceedings against the President if he refused a court order to turn over the Watergate tapes to a panel of judges...
...part, read one of the more unusual directives ever issued by a U.S. federal judge. The order, by Judge Walter E. Hoffman, came last week in response to complaints by lawyers representing Vice President Spiro Agnew, who is being investigated by a Maryland grand jury for allegedly taking bribes and for other misconduct. The lawyers had contended that the grand jury's investigation should be halted because a campaign of "malicious, immoral and illegal" leaks by Justice Department officials was designed to deprive the Vice President of his "basic rights to due process and fair hearing...