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Chairman Robert Strauss called Ford's words "irresponsible" and accused him -in an obvious exaggeration-of reverting to the abusive campaign tactics of Nixon and Spiro Agnew in 1970. Said Ford of his critics: "They may not have seen anything...
...between himself and Nixon. Ford did not answer directly, although exactly what bearing such tapes would have on the issue of the pardon was unclear. Nixon pulled the plug on his recording system in mid-July 1973 while he was still determined to tough it out in office. Spiro Agnew was then Vice President, and Ford was the House minority leader...
Reasoner Report. Whither Spiro Agnew? Harry shows us. Ch. 5, 10 p.m. 1 hour...
Responding to the Senators, Rockefeller carefully disengaged himself from Spiro Agnew, saying that he had refused a request by the former Vice President to help arrange financing for his novel about political life in Washington. He also noted that John Ehrlichman, the former domestic affairs adviser to Nixon, had written twice to ask for money for his legal expenses. "From a human point of view," Rockefeller testified, "I'm embarrassed to say I didn't answer the letters...
...notable exception to the back-the-incumbents trend: in Baltimore County, Md., Democratic voters rose up in wrath and routed what had been one of the strongest party machines in the nation for the past century. Corruption has been a way of life in the county, as the Spiro Agnew case dramatized. But the indictment for corruption-and the subsequent resignation-of Democratic County Executive Dale Anderson last spring apparently were too much. The voters defeated ten party regulars, ranging from Frederick L. Dewberry, Anderson's successor, to four candidates for the Baltimore County council...