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...Agnew also writes hundreds of letters -many in longhand-to supporters who have deluged him with 37,000 pieces of mail since his world collapsed...
...While Agnew works, his Government limousine is at his beck, and Secret Service agents keep guard downstairs, eying visitors through bulletproof one-way glass. The fact that the former Vice President has been receiving such perquisites so angered Democratic Congressman John E. Moss that he asked the General Accounting Office to investigate. Last week Comptroller General Elmer Staats wrote Moss that in just under two months the Government had already spent $89,132 on Agnew's staff, $2,075 for the maintenance of the town houses, $877 for office supplies and $905 to move the cartons from...
...addition, the cost of providing Secret Service protection for Agnew-a dozen agents accompanied him to Annapolis, and they keep watch in a parked car outside his house-is estimated at $80,000 so far. Staats told Moss: "We know of no specific provision of law authorizing the Secret Service to so protect a Vice President after he leaves office." President Nixon had ordered the Secret Service coverage for Agnew...
...White House refused to say how long Agnew would continue to enjoy the style of living to which he has become accustomed. But Nixon's aides were talking privately of extending the coverage to six months from his resignation on Oct. 10-the same period that Hubert Humphrey was given similar privileges by Richard Nixon after losing the 1968 election...
Time has not lessened Agnew's bitterness toward the press or the Justice Department or the business cronies who squealed; he has privately complimented one businessman pal for not "breaking...