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...Agnew Rejected. As majority leader, O'Neill admits, "I'm a terrifically Democratic partisan." He has shown himself to be a skilled and salty battler with the White House, a role that Speaker Albert has never been able to fulfill because of his natural tendency to avoid controversy. When the President called for cooperation last summer between the Administration and the Congress-and then threatened to use some vetoes -O'Neill cracked: "It was hard to tell whether the President was calling for teamwork-or a scrimmage...
...Neill showed his influence-and political sensitivity-last September when Spiro Agnew sought to have the House of Representatives investigate reports that he had accepted bribes from Maryland contractors. During the meeting between the Vice President and the Democratic leadership, O'Neill immediately sensed that Agnew was desperately trying to keep the case out of the courts. When there was some indecision about how the matter should be handled, O'Neill was the man mainly responsible for convincing Speaker Albert that he should reject the plea out of hand...
...before President Nixon did. An editor at Doubleday, a serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit about a U.S. Vice President who is manipulated by Chinese Communists...
...WONDERED what he meant. A glance at Nixon and Agnew could reveal "taxpaying conservatives" to be a contradiction in terms. Linus Pauling got rid of the Common Cause a couple of years ago. And if conservatives are against "pressuring, harassing, and demanding," then why did I receive this backing-me-against-the-wall letter asking for money? It just didn't make sense. But then in a flash of hindsight it all came clear. They had enclosed a report which "describes the fashion in which ACU has sought to seize the initiative in behalf of the conservative position--not merely...
...meantime, Agnew hopes to raise some ready cash by selling his suburban Maryland home outside Washington. The asking price for the 9-room Georgian-style house, which Agnew purchased for $190,000 about a year ago: $325,000. Most of the increase is the result of $125,000 worth of "protective improvements" ordered by the Secret Service. The former Vice President is not required to reimburse the Government for such improvements once out of office. Agnew still has not found a buyer, and even if he manages to get the price he is asking, there are still those irksome debts...