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Like any American vice president, Agnew's only importance lay in his potential as a presidential hopeful. His resignation's principal effect is merely to open the way for another presidential aspirant to be christened front-runner by President Nixon...
Equally inconsequential, will be the effect of Agnew's resignation on the laws governing the conduct of politicians. No new laws were needed to pin Agnew down: The laws were already on the books...
...will Agnew's resignation prompt the Justice Department to enforce these laws more vigorously? Probably not. The spirit of enforcement, if it indeed exists at Justice, got put there after the embarrassment of the initial Watergate investigation, which uncovered conspiracy limited to seven men. If anything, knocking over a king-pin like Agnew may tend to inject a little complacency into the department...
...what of Agnew? His resignation will probably be no deterant to finding another job--one in which he'll almost definitely have more to do than in his old one. When Agnew's nomination for vice president was announced five years ago, the question everyone asked was "Spiro who?" Ten years from now the same question will greet the mention of his name
...responsibility for nominating a person to replace Spiro T. Agnew as vice-president belongs to Richard M. Nixon. Once Nixon chooses his nominee, the new vice-president will take office after being confirmed by a majority vote in both houses of the Congress...