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Wicker said the importance that the investigation of Agnew is receiving in the press is an example of how "an institution that is supposed to be a watchdog can be used by those with the power...
...weeks ago we were discussing the impeachment of Nixon...now we are discussing the impeachment of Agnew," Wicker said...
...victory. But the slogan which once rang with a nauseating finality for McGovern supporters and those disillusioned by both candidates now twists into irony, Nov. 7, 1972, was only a preliminary verdict, merely eliminating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver. The fates of Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew, the Republican ticket of 1972, still await the decisions of courts in Maryland and Washington...
...press's treatment of the Agnew investigation has also been among the worst coverage in journalistic history, he said...
...question and answer period at the end of the talk, Wicker explained that he thought Agnew was the "victim of a [White House] campaign of vilification...for reasons that are not clear to me, but are certainly not attractive...