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...greater concession of wrongdoing. But there is little likelihood that Nixon could ever bring himself to admit full guilt, though that guilt has been adequately documented by the House Judiciary Committee. Even if indicted, he probably would have fought fiercely to seek an acquittal rather than plea-bargain, Agnew-style. Indeed, Illinois Republican Congressman John Anderson offered a cutting observation last week. "Why were we ever stupid enough to think that this awful man would fade away like one of MacArthur's old soldiers?" he asked. "He was always going to be dragged kicking and screaming into oblivion...
...indeed do everything to prevent access. For the sake of history and for the nation's peace of mind, justice should be seen to have been done in Nixon's case; the full and final record should be laid bare, as it was in Spiro Agnew's removal from office...
Richard Nixon served as Dwight Eisenhower's "goodwill ambassador," visiting 54 countries, and was the Administration's partisan gut fighter, traveling the "low road" during campaigns. (Nixon, as President, assigned that job to Spiro Agnew.) But when Ike was asked in 1960, "What major decisions has your Vice President participated in?" he replied: "If you give me a week, I might think of one." John Kennedy tried, at least initially, to employ Lyndon Johnson effectively. Kennedy saw to it that Johnson presided over National Security Council meetings, appointed him to head the President's Committee on Equal...
Between the time Spiro Agnew became a household word and the moment he passed into the garage sale of history, many of America's intellectuals feared a recurrence of McCarthy fever. But with the notable exception of Daniel Ellsberg, the Administration was not out to get those who, in the early cold war, were derisively called eggheads. The Vice President's bark was reserved for TV, newspaper and magazine journalists, a motley lot whom intellectuals sometimes refer to as middlebrows...
...Harvard Republican Club is probably the second largest political group at Harvard. Its main coups last year were cabling Nixon to resign earlier than most other Republicans and inviting Ford. The year before Spiro Agnew informed its delegation that he would resign if anything every shook his absolute faith in the administration's integrity, and the club was also naturally the core of the small Harvard Nixon campaign in 1972. But as a group Harvard Republicans are generally not too politically active--the cable to Nixon was pretty exceptional. Similarly, the Young Democrats, which once billed itself as the moderate...