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...Agnew adviser half-jokingly described the Vice President's delicate position amid continuing talk of President Nixon's possible impeachment or resignation. Since Agnew might suddenly find himself President-but can hardly escape from Nixon's shadow now -he must follow a strategy of demonstrating his loyalty while asserting his independence. Yet he must not appear to be talking with a forked tongue-and the Vice President, as everyone knows, likes to talk. "We're in the most sensitive, most sacrosanct area of Government affairs," says an Agnew intimate. "The Vice President has to avoid...
...Agnew has kept his balance...
...President could not have asked for stronger support last week from his No. 2 man. "I've got total confidence in the President's integrity," Agnew told an interviewer. He denounced Nixon's critics for "an incredible storm of personal abuse." Speaking to the Bull Elephants Club, a collection of G.O.P. congressional aides, he declared: "I believe it is important that we not be stampeded into protesting entirely too much...
...same time, Agnew kept reminding people that he had nothing to do with Watergate and not even very much to do with the White House. Even today, his aides maintain, he remains an outsider. Though Nixon had promised him a larger role in domestic policy after White House Staffers Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were sacked, Agnew has received only a few calls of consultation from Kenneth Cole Jr., executive director of the Domestic Council. Agnew claims that his role within the White House has still not been defined-and he does not seem to be in a hurry...
...that Connally has been around the White House that much. Since he rejoined the Nixon team he has spent only 2½ days in Washington. "That's what is so beautiful about the freeze-out," says an Agnew adviser. "John Connally got all that embrace last year. Thank God, it wasn't us." He added hopefully: "Now Connally is dead. If you're close to Nixon, you're dead...