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Even the circumstances of the White House meeting seemed unusual. Nixon had not been expected to return east until after Labor Day, and he could easily have summoned Agnew to San Clemente. The White House announced that Agnew had requested the meeting, but there was speculation that Nixon might have arranged that "request" as a face-saving device for Agnew...
...lasted two hours-the longest discussion between the two men since they took office in January 1969. They talked alone until the end, when they were joined briefly by White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler. The purpose of the meeting, said Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, was to allow Agnew to bring the President up to date on "his legal troubles in Maryland...
According to aides of both men, Nixon and Agnew did not discuss the possibility of the Vice President's resigning, nor did they take up the need for a contingency plan for replacing Agnew if he should leave office. Agnew told Nixon that he intends to keep on fighting until he wins. "He's hanging in there," said a White House aide. The two, according to the official version, did not discuss making a joint defense on Constitutional matters affecting both their cases, including whether they can withhold official documents from investigators. Said Agnew: "I'm handling...
...When Agnew left, Warren reported -a bit ambiguously-that the President's support of his Vice President "remains unchanged." It was possible, of course, that the official versions and denials were genuine. But the unusual circumstances of the long and mysterious meeting indicated that the encounter could have major consequences for the Nixon Administration and the entire nation...
...democratic process," Americans by and large do not want him to leave the presidency. They have three main reasons for that stand: 1) they tend to blame the men around Nixon more than the President for creating the scandal; 2) they would be "dissatisfied" with Vice President Spiro Agnew as a replacement; and 3) they fear the probable impact, both at home and abroad, of the President's impeachment or his resignation...