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...prosecution grew out of the same federal effort to clean up Maryland politics that drove Spiro Agnew, Mandel's predecessor as Governor, from the vice presidency. A total of seven Maryland officials have been convicted in federal prosecutions since 1973. In early August, former Congressman Edward A. Garmatz was indicted for bribe taking; Mandel's trial, ironically enough, was held in downtown Baltimore's new Edward A. Garmatz Federal Court Building...
...commission agents who handle customers' orders, has dropped by more than 13% in the past six years. The merger wave is still rolling: Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., the Rolls Royce of the industry, has an agreement in principle to merge with the small San Francisco firm of Shuman, Agnew & Co. Inc. in order to get salesmen who know how to deal with small investors. Now that common stocks are no longer a favored investment vehicle, brokerage firms are being forced to offer a variety of investment services, from handling tax-free bond funds to trading in commodities...
...lucid observer. But she is so detached and dignified that the novel lacks fire. Her gentility dulls the effectiveness of a potentially enlivening technique: the difficult one of mixing real Washington characters with fictional ones. Such household names as Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, Judy Agnew, Betty Ford Rosalynn Carter- and Gene McCarthy -move fleetingly through the story. All are portrayed in flattering terms...
...SPIRO AGNEW. Nixon revealed that he had been unwilling to rely solely on the recommendations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson after an investigation was begun of kickbacks paid by Maryland contractors to his Vice President. Nixon asked that Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen, a Democrat, make his own investigation of the case. "There was no secret Richardson and Agnew didn't like each other. There was no secret that Richardson had ambitions to be Vice President or President in 1976, and earlier if possible." After Petersen concurred that the charges would lead to a recommendation of a prison sentence...
...discussing Agnew, Nixon recounts the excuses that Agnew offered him about charges of accepting payoffs -even while he was Vice President -from Maryland contractors in return for favorable treatment he had given them while Governor of that state. According to Nixon, Agnew insisted he had never accepted such money "while he was in the White House" and that, anyway, "half the members of the Senate who have served as Governors" had accepted kickbacks from contractors...