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...stood before the bench, fingering some notes that he had written on an envelope, still a tall, erect, impeccably tailored figure. But his face was gaunt, and the familiar baritone, once so sternly confident and self-righteous, was surprisingly soft. Last week Spiro Agnew appeared in a hushed and packed Annapolis, Md., courtroom to fight what one of his attorneys called "professional decapitation''-disbarment...
Some time before Spiro Agnew quit, the political seer Richard Scammon was asked what was going to happen to the Vice President. "If he is guilty, he will hang," was Scammon's simple answer. That response contained a great deal of wisdom, experience and faith in the American sense of morality. It applies to Nixon too. If the anguish of Watergate has proved anything, it is that there is still a feeling for right and wrong in this country, and that a pretty good case can still be made that men who have committed crimes are detected. The crimes...
...earn such kudos, Rockefeller has stumped the country in recent weeks as a gravel-voiced Spiro Agnew, bragging about New York's tough new drug law, decrying welfare cheaters, and heaping praise on Republican stalwarts. (In Arizona, he paid effusive tribute to Barry Goldwater. Apparently, ambition heals all wounds...
...Rocky paid glowing tribute to every politician in the room: "I had the pleasure of standing next to Dave Germain, during the reception . . . Also just a word to thank the Bishop Ryan High School chorus and Mrs. Koenig, who is their leader." A local Republican made the inevitable comparison: "Agnew once came out here and just stood around not shaking hands with anybody...
...States, congressmen protested, editorials condemned American support of the junta, and among others UAW president Leonard Woodcock said: "The power of the dictatorship has rested on the twin base of arms and credits, both supplied in abundance by the U.S. Its reputation was internationally vouched for by Spiro T. Agnew, the convicted tax-evader...