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...sounds to you like Agnew is really admitting to unscrupulous practices, you simply do not have the political experience necessary to draw the line between morality and prison. The "political realities of fund-raising," Agnew thoughtfully explains, include the following: Campaign money comes "mainly from people who made money out of being politically 'in'." Furthermore, a pesky contributor "always wanted to give the money to you personally, so he was sure that you knew he was helping you." And, Agnew explains, "he usually gave it in cash," on which "he had probably not paid taxes." Anyway, the donor almost surely...
...might wonder, then, how liberals forced such a pillar of political integrity from office. Shakespeare helps to explain this phenomenon, Agnew contends. On his way to the courthouse where he would plead nolo contendere, Agnew dissected As You Like It with his Secret Service detail. "We began to talk about...the truth of the lines, 'All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.'" And so, an hour later when he stood before a judge and agreed not to contest a felony charge, "inside me another voice said, 'It's only a play, only...
Indeed, all the world almost became a stage for Agnew--had he not been hounded by the feds, he would have replaced Richard Nixon when his presidency ended a year later under remarkably similar circumstances. Go Quietly or Else gives some intriguing clues as to what foreign policy would have been like under the first Greek-American president. That part of the world called North Vietnam would have been far wetter than under Nixon...
...China, too, Agnew would have stuck up for decency, not kowtowing to Peking simpy because it represented a fourth of the planet's population. "I disagree completely--and still do--with President Nixon's initiative to 'normalize' relations with the People's Republic of China," he writes. By looking with favor on the reds, he explained, we gave them "the political and economic muscle to seriously impair the security and prosperity of the seventeen million people on the island." And, he notes, with a tinge of sadness for the days when America had the guts to stand by its word...
...think all of America's foreign policy would have changed under the Agnew administration. Nixon made some grand decisions in his day, Spiro beams, pointing to one widely-heralded example: "I was so proud of Nixon the day the troops went into the Cambodian sanctuaries in the spring of 1970 that I stopped him in the hall after he had announced it to the cabinet. 'Mr. President,' I said, 'I admire you for having the courage to make that tough decision...