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Obeying a court order to return kickback money he had accepted for lucrative state contracts while Governor of Maryland, former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, 64, paid up last week. The check was made out to the state for $268,482 (the $142,500 he pocketed plus interest). Said the ex-Veep, now a foreign trade consultant, from his luxurious desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif.: "This just doesn't seem to add up to the kind of justice the framers of the Constitution had in mind...
Though a dedicated Republican, McCall spoke against the party and its leadership. He was the first Republican leader to publicly tangle with Vice-President Spiro Agnew. At a 1970 governors' conference in Idaho. McCall received national attention when he called a presentation by Agnew a "rotten, bigoted little speech," and questioned the choice of Agnew as President Nixon's running-mate...
Gazing towards the assembled. Woods toasted Spiro Agnew as "the second most honorable man this country ever produced." In a corner of the ballroom, former Presidential Aide Charles Colson and former Attorney General John Mitchell engaged in a bit of good-natured banter Ranked at 63 in Woods' compilation, Colson bested both Mitchell and former president Abraham Lincoln by four and five places, respectively. "It's an honor to see you again, John." Colson said. "Perhaps so, Charles, but it's a greater honor to see you Rose Mary says so." The two chuckled as Woods directed their attention...
...tiers of students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed Philadelphian taste a century ago; The Agnew Clinic was rejected from the Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition in 1891 because it depicted a mastectomy for cancer and was "not cheerful for ladies to look at," an understatement of the first order...
...little momentary frustration or misunderstanding, but that's all it is"). As his popularity has fallen-it is the lowest at this point in his term of any President since Truman-Republicans have urged him to mount a diversionary attack on the press and find a Spiro Agnew to do the dirty work. That is not Reagan style. Besides, he likes to describe himself as "a former reporter, columnist and commentator myself " and thus knows the tricks of the trade. To Voice of America employees not long ago, he did a fast-delivery imitation of how, as a young...