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...wouldn't mind Agnew as President. I also probably wouldn't mind if Nixon were impeached....The Watergate affair will probably drag on, with a decline of confidence in the Administration and with a guerrilla war between Congress and the Administration....Watergate is oddly different from other scandals in the past. There is little evidence of venality....The point, which is really a question, is whether our culture sustains any shared values too sacred to be compromised -- any shared standards of behavior, violations of which simply will not be tolerated...
Some Republican strategists, including an editorial writer at the conservative National Review, have begun to wonder whether ousting Nixon might not be the only way to save the party's chances in 1976. Such a move would give Spiro Agnew a stint as President before he would have to run on his own. By the same token, some Democrats reason it might be better to keep the Administration dangling on the Watergate hook until 1976, even if Nixon should turn out to be impeachable. Democratic Congressman Henry S. Reuss raised anew the possibility of a bipartisan, caretaker Government under...
...interview with Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko, Agnew was unusually outspoken. He said that if he became President he could scarcely outperform Nixon in foreign affairs, but on the domestic scene, he had "some ideas." He faulted the Administration for abandoning various programs without devising better ones to replace them...
...pilot project for mass transportation in several large cities, he said, or mustered the resources to clean up one of the Great Lakes-showing that Republicans can do a job that Democrats only talk about. "We have to stay on the course the President has elected," Agnew concluded. "That doesn't mean that some day, perhaps given my chance to make my own decisions, I might not go in another direction...
Thus in the week during which Agnew continued his ardent defense of the President, he also made his boldest declaration of independence. Though Watergate may threaten to sink him-innocent as he may be-with the rest of the Administration, he obviously is making plans to stay afloat...