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...Senate seat and who has privately stated that he thinks President Nixon is "up to his ears" in the Watergate mess. Said Proxmire: the secondhand press accounts of what White House Counsel John W. Dean III told federal investigators represent a "McCarthyistic destruction of the President." Vice President Spiro Agnew followed with an attack on the publication of anonymous "hearsay" as "a very short jump from McCarthyism...
...more years-with two off for good behavior." More ominously, there was open speculation, in print as well as in conversation, about the President's being impeached or having to resign. Even Nixon's bitterest foes dreaded the prospect, if only because it would mean President Spiro Agnew. Congressman Henry Reuss, a liberal Democrat, made a rather fantastic proposal for the resignations of both Nixon and Agnew...
...Everybody's Doing It. The President himself has helped propagate that notion. In his TV speech on Watergate two weeks ago, he assured the nation that "both our great parties have been guilty of such tactics ... the campaign excesses have occurred on all sides." Last week Vice President Agnew concurred. This is not the first time that governments have been linked to scandals, from Teapot Dome on down, said Agnew...
...strange way, Nixon and Agnew were thus close to agreeing with the line pushed hard by the far left, that it is the entire system, the Establishment and all its works, that is to blame for whatever is wrong in the U.S. Most of the public appears to agree, at least about politics. In a Gallup poll taken just after the President's TV talk, 58% of the respondents said that there was little difference between the corruption of the Nixon Administration and that of other Administrations in the last 25 years. People who were queried last week voiced...
...large news organizations, precisely the ones assailed by Spiro Agnew and others, that mustered the resources and courage to dig out the facts and present them to a national audience. Smaller newspapers and local TV stations, often patted on the head by the Administration for their "straight" reporting, simply lacked the means...