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...Senate vote had been scheduled just less than seven weeks after Spiro T. Agnew resigned the nation's second highest office and pleaded no contest to a single count of income tax evasion...
...hundred years ago, "Jemmy" Rivington, a popinjay Tory editor whose anti-liberal scallawaggery would have delighted Spiro Agnew or Richard Nixon, founded "Rivington's New-York Gazetteer...
...State Bar of California is contemplating action against lawyers from Richard Nixon down. Although he was not connected with Watergate, another well-known lawyer is also facing disbarment. The Maryland State Bar Association last week formally asked the state Court of Appeals to begin proceedings against Spiro Agnew...
...election. But then there had been considerable scandal closer to home: in the past three years, 78 public officeholders have been indicted by federal grand juries in New Jersey. Sandman, moreover, stood at the far right of the party and admitted: "Watergate didn't help us, Vice President Agnew didn't help us. But I blame nobody but myself. It could be that [the party] didn't choose a better candidate in June...
...think of another factor," he says. "America is losing faith in its leaders." And in its leaders' haberdashery. The more conservative the costume, by his reasoning, the shadier the image. Perhaps the guiltiest of the White House straight men-before the sartorial bar anyway-is Spiro Agnew. "Every hair is in place on that man," complains Molloy. "He always buttons his buttons." Hence the impression is one of strained perfectionism. H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, with his neatly mowed hair (recently grown and raked for a weedier effect) and Ivy League garb, has that "I went to the right schools" look...