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...Agnew never received a satisfactory response to his questions regarding the source of news leaks about the Baltimore grand jury investigation of reported bribery and extortion, as well as tax evasion...
...Agnew incurred Nixon's wrath last May when he attempted to dissociate himself from the Nixon Administration and its bout with political scandal. Speculation ensued about White House participation in the leakage of information concerning Agnew's alleged crimes before coming to the vice presidency...
Nixon himself apparently initiated the plea bargaining in which Agnew and the Justice Department have participated. And the chances are good that Agnew's confession of his sins will in a perverse way help the man who thrust Agnew into the national spotlight in July...
...Agnew's crimes will divert attention from the Watergate affair, and in Seymour M. Lipset's words, "This, combined with the Mideast war, will go a long way to taking Nixon off the hook." Number two's resignation probably forecloses the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Number...
...Agnew, his face drawn and his hands trembling, admitted to the court that he received payments in 1967 which he "failed to report for the purposes of income taxation." He said he knew the money should have been reported...