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...know anything about him, except that this is his last day," explained a White House aide curtly. He was referring to the final severance of Spiro T. Agnew from the U.S. Government. Six months to the day after his resignation as Vice President, Agnew and his Government-paid staff of six packed up last week and left the federal office he has occupied in a restored town house across the street from Lafayette Park. They have completed the task of sifting through Agnew's vice-presidential papers, turned some over to the National Archives, donated others to libraries...
After a concerted outcry from Congress, Agnew's Secret Service detail and chauffeured limousine were withdrawn in February, and he has been spotted in recent weeks walking along Northwest Washington's Jackson Place, heading to and from his office. He is nearly always grim-visaged, facing forward and alone. Few of his once close associates have seen much of him lately, though Agnew continues to play an occasional golf or tennis match at two suburban Washington clubs. Friends say he is devoting much of his time to the novel he is writing for Playboy Press. There...
...opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...
...Gold, 45, former press secretary to Spiro Agnew. Gold, who appears in 97 papers, dislikes the conservative label, describes himself as a "smartass iconoclast" at a time when "most icons are liberal." Gold's work thus far has been heavier on vitriol than substance. He spent two columns attacking the new reverence for Harry Truman ("I'm tired of all this crap about cuddly old Harry"), and he uses Nelson Rockefeller as a prime whipping boy. He has not addressed the impeachment question, other than to offer one veiled suggestion that Congress "go with the Madison Plan [impeachment...
...President to resign, as suggested by Republican Conservative Senator James Buckley, and indicated little enthusiasm for any legislation granting him immunity from prosecution if he were to leave office. "This matter should take its course," Mansfield said, meaning a full Senate impeachment trial. "We should not have another Agnew situation," he added-a reference to the Vice President's being allowed to plead nolo contendere to income tax evasion, then to resign and be granted immunity from further federal prosecution...