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...last night, from his $190,000 Bethesda, Md., home, Spiro Agnew watched the man who chose him as a running mate in 1968 name House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.) to succeed...
...Spiro Agnew may not have been a household word when Presidential candidate Richard Nixon nominated the Maryland governor for the vice presidency five years ago. But Agnew's sudden exit from office this week may have won a dubious place in history for the man whose vice presidential fame and presidential aspirations were founded on his public image as a defender of law and order...
When he walked into court in Baltimore Wednesday, Agnew, who had repeatedly termed all charges against him "damned lies," announced he had resigned from the vice presidency and then pleaded no contest to a felony count of tax evasion...
...District Court Judge Walter E. Hoffman fined Agnew $10,000--the maximum allowable--and sentenced him to a prison term of two to five months. But Hoffman suspended the jail sentence and placed Agnew on probation with far fewer restrictions than the average American receives for the crime for which Agnew admitted guilt...
...AGNEW HAS BECOME the latest in a long line of disgraced high officials who surrounded the president and his crime--tax evasion--hardly compares to the graver abuses of public trust committed by Nixon aides in the White House. He is only one of a group of men whose political fortunes were made by Richard Nixon and destroyed by their own unprincipled and unscrupulous behavior. But Richard Nixon's tendency to attract such men is no surprise; he has in the past come close to destroying himself through similar conduct...