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...John Ashbrook, who ran against the President in several 1972 primaries, argues that "there is not much support for the President below the surface of conservatism. There is a lot of grumbling and downright hostility. For the average conservative, it has been a question of digesting so much stuff: Agnew, the 18-minute gap in the tape, the President's taxes, the missing deed for his papers. It is a litany of events that seems not to cease, and no demagoguery of trying to blame it on the press and on the left is going to work. The President...
Certainly the social issue hurt the Democrats in a number of districts during the 1970 campaign. It was very easy for Spiro Agnew to run around the country charging that the Democrats tacitly supported riots, demonstrations, crime in the streets and pornography. After the Grand Rapids, Mich., congressional loss this year, a Republican leader in Congress was quoted in The New York Times as saying that his party should turn back to the old reliable social issues. Finally, another reason the liberals' strategy didn't work is that it is very difficult to beat incumbents--at any time, in almost...
...White House waved its wand last week-and overnight former Vice President Spiro Agnew was left defenseless in Frank Sinatra's compound in Palm Springs. Finally knuckling under to congressional pressure, GAO rulings and public criticism of the nearly $200,000 spent on Agnew's protection since he resigned in October, the White House withdrew not only his Secret Service guards but his car and chauffeur too. Still, Agnew's trip to Palm Springs had a positive side. He sold his novel, A Very Special Relationship, to Playboy Press for "more than $50,000." The book centers...
...There have been a lot of foul and odorous things in previous administrations, but just look at Nixon's record," he told the group. Citing former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's felony conviction and the indictment of 14 White House associates, Rather added, "the Harding administration is not even comparable...
...persons have been charged for crimes under the rubric of Watergate, and many others-such as H.R. Haldeman, the former White House chief of staff-have hired lawyers to protect themselves. Private legal fees can be brutal, as Spiro Agnew learned while running up bills reliably reported to total $200,000. Former White House Counsel John Dean has probably incurred bills of $50,000. John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief domestic adviser, is fighting court actions on both coasts that may already have cost him $100,000. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt charged $125,000 to defend four Watergate...