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...While Agnew kept his counsel, the men around him kept passing the word that the Vice President would not quit under fire-it just was not his nature. Indeed, as the week went on, Agnew seemed to be physically bracing himself for a fight. His face, always angular, took on a new grimness, and his eyes, always narrow when he is angry, became tight slits...
...Legally, Agnew could fight an indictment for any possible transgressions so much more effectively as Vice President that it made no sense for him to resign unless he could have engineered a deal. The President could not force him to quit; he had been elected by the voters just as Nixon...
What is more, Agnew has had a team of attorneys preparing to fight the grand jury's investigation. The team is headed by Judah Best, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who now practices in Washington. Assisting Best are Martin London and Jay Topkis, two lawyers from the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison...
...Agnew's lawyers argue that the Vice President cannot be indicted for anything he did unless he is first removed from office by being impeached by the House of Representatives and found guilty by the Senate...
...Should Agnew succeed in persuading the courts that he cannot be indicted before he is impeached, an odd impasse might ensue. The Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives is by no means sure it can impeach Agnew for offenses committed before he became Vice President (see page 15). If that proves so, in theory at least, Agnew could escape both being indicted in Maryland-if the courts ruled that he could not be tried while a Vice President-and being impeached on the Hill. But if the evidence against him is truly compelling, that logic would not likely...