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...nation, too, the stakes are high. Even before Agnew's troubles burst into view, Watergate had sorely eroded public confidence in Government and enhanced cynicism about politics. If Agnew is finally adjudged guilty, that erosion and cynicism will be deepened, particularly in view of all his vehement protestations of innocence. Conversely, if he is found not guilty, the administration of justice, not to mention the press, will suffer yet another black eye for having needlessly ? Agnew would argue perniciously ? inflicted the ordeal on the Vice President and the country. Either outcome is likely to deepen the divisions...
...Agnew began his longest week already persuaded that sooner or later he must try to get his case before the House of Representatives because, he claimed, the constant leaks from the Justice Department had made it hard for him to get a fair trial in the courts. In two press conferences since the investigation was announced Aug. 6, Agnew had lambasted the leaks, demanding that Richardson locate the culprits in his department and dismiss them. Richardson said that he could not trace the leaks; Agnew's staff felt that he would not. When Peter Malatesta, one of Agnew's aides...
...sooner had Agnew showed up at his office on Monday morning than he heard that CBS-TV Correspondent Fred Graham had quoted Henry Petersen as saying of the Vice President: "We've got the evidence. We've got it cold." An infuriated Agnew described the comment as "scandalous." Later in the day Richardson announced that he was canceling a speaking engagement in Texas because "of the most pressing of national business." Snapped Agnew: "A grandstand play...
...next morning Richardson and Petersen met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to report that they had been unable to work out a compromise settlement with Agnew's lawyers. Exactly who had sought a compromise is still un clear. The Justice Department implies that the bargaining was proposed by Agnew's attorneys. Agnew's camp angrily insists that it was the department that offered a deal...
Constitutional Dilemma. Richardson had gone along with a search for an out-of-court settlement because, he explained, he wanted to avoid "a constitutional dilemma of potentially serious consequence to the nation"? the dilemma of whether or not Agnew, as a sitting Vice President, could be indicted before being impeached...