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...just as the President seemed about to be given some respite, a new scandal exploded. Vice President Agnew, who had hitherto escaped the taint of Watergate, was officially informed that he was under investigation for allegedly taking kickbacks from contractors. With a mixture of shock and disbelief, many Americans wondered: "Who else? What next?" It was an unprecedented crisis of American leadership, and no one could say whether or when trust in that leadership could ever be restored. It seemed incredible that only a little over a year had passed since Nixon and Agnew had stood at Miami, waving acknowledgment...
...point at the time was that the Senate investigation of Kleindienst might conceivably turn up copies of several memorandums that had been written by both Administration and ITT officials. These documents, said Colson, could implicate a number of Administration officials in the ITT case, including Vice President Spiro Agnew, Secretary of the Treasury John Connally and Attorney General John Mitchell. More important, at least two of the documents could "directly involve the President...
...August 1970, according to Colson, ITT Vice President Edward J. Gerrity Jr. had written to Agnew, an old friend from Army days: "Our problem is to get John Mitchell the facts concerning McLaren's attitude because . . . McLaren seems to be running all by himself." In a meeting between ITT President Harold S. Geneen and Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman, Gerrity continued, Ehrlichman had "said flatly that the President was not enforcing a bigness-is-bad policy [against ITT], and that the President had instructed the Justice Department along these lines." This document, Colson noted, was embarrassing because it "tends...
...tapes-for example, that he might be biding for time, on the theory that the closer the nation comes to the 1974 congressional elections, the less willing Congressmen will be to involve themselves in an impeachment process. Or that the more time that passes, the less palatable an interim Agnew presidency would be, and the more the American people would be likely to stick with a diminished Nixon for such of his term as might remain...
...stayed. They pushed through the Senate last week a bill that authorized the pipeline by removing the restrictions of the 1920 act and barring any further court action on the environmental statement. The vote on court action was a 49-49 tie, broken by Vice President Agnew, but the overall measure sailed through by 77-20. If the House agrees, construction on the $4 billion pipeline could begin within six months, and oil could start to flow south by 1977. But the environmentalists are nothing if not stubborn. They plan to lobby against similar action by the House...