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...Justice officials and Agnew's lawyers had been unable to agree on a bargain under which the Vice President would resign and be charged with a lesser offense than the evidence warranted...
...thinks I'm a big fry and that I'll help him along in his career. They're taking [as witnesses] every individual they possibly can and giving every kind of immunity that they could possibly have ? people I've never had any dealings with in my life." Agnew said that Beall was out to make him the villain of current history. Said the Vice President: "I don't want any part of writing this part of history...
Extraordinary Session. Meanwhile a curious vigil was being mounted in Albert's anteroom. In the Senate, Barry Goldwater and Minority Leader Hugh Scott had got wind of the extraordinary session, and came over to sit outside Albert's office as a visible gesture of moral support for Agnew. They had to leave before the Vice President came out, but Agnew later phoned his thanks to Scott. "It was generous of you and Barry," he said. "These are the kinds of things that don't go unnoticed...
That same afternoon, while the meeting went on in Albert's office, Scott received a phone call from the President, who had some special advice to pass along. Nixon cautioned Scott to warn his Republican Senators against discussing the Agnew case in public. If Agnew was impeached, the Senators would sit as the jurors at his trial. As he talked to Scott, Nixon was sympathetic to Agnew. "How sad the whole thing is," said the President...
Meanwhile, back in Albert's office, the more Agnew talked, the more skeptical the Democrats became. As they saw it, Agnew's arguments did not add up. The Vice President was claiming that a House committee controlled by Democrats would be fairer than a court ? yet until lately he had been arguing that Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee had been unfairly hounding the White House. Agnew was attacking the leaks of the prosecutors ? yet the example of Ervin's committee showed that leaks could also spring freely on the Hill...