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...precedents are slight, the uncertainties legion. But Vice President Spiro Agnew's situation now seems sure to force the resolution of a number of long open constitutional questions. Last week TIME asked six experts in constitutional law and history to discuss together the complex issues and implications of the case. The six: Raoul Berger, 72, Harvard Law School Senior Fellow and authority on impeachment and Executive privilege; Alexander Bickel, 48, Yale...
...Petersen, father of seven, he apparently was spending much of the weekend on Chesapeake Bay in his 26-foot cruiser, and at least initially was unreachable for his reaction to Agnew's assault - if, indeed, he was aware...
Whatever Petersen's shortcomings, they do not prove Agnew's more serious charge: that Petersen is part of an effort to restore the Justice Department's tarnished reputation by netting Agnew as a redeeming "trophy." Watergate may indeed have been bungled by the Justice Department, and this puts pressure on the department to avoid any impression that it could be politically influenced to be part of a cover-up in Agnew's case. While Agnew targets Petersen he is, of course, implicitly involving Petersen's superiors, both Richard son and the President, in this conspiracy...
Does it change things if Agnew's alleged misconduct occurred before he became Vice President...
...done before they became Vice President. But they don't provide a clear precedent. In the Calhoun case, the House accepted the responsibility to appoint a select committee to investigate charges made against Calhoun some years before. In the Colfax case, it declined to do so. In the Agnew case, not only do the two precedents glance in different directions, but we aren't even clear that the complaints against him do not spill over into his vice presidency...