Word: agnew
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...Agnew resigning when we all know that Nixon...
...greater disservice can be done to our system of constitutional democracy than to demonstrate, as the Justice Department has in this instance, that there is one law for the politically influential and another law for the ordinary citizen. To call the Justice Department's handling of the Agnew case "just, fair and honorable" is to make a mockery of justice, fairness and honor...
...future of American constitutional democracy is endangered much less by the activities of a few politicians like Mr. Agnew than it is by the mockery of justice that characterizes the present Administration's response to such activities...
...Agnew's prediction that he would not receive fair treatment in the courts has proved to be true. His punishment for a felony is a mockery of fairness and proves that "justice for all" really means "justice for most, unwarranted mercy...
Among the unique and troubling aspects of the nation's political crisis is that President Nixon's impeachment now would place in the White House for three long years a man who had not been elected to national office. Since the resignation of former Vice President Spiro Agnew three weeks ago, there have been two possible successors to Nixon on the scene: his Vice President-designate Gerald Ford, or, should Nixon's departure come before Ford is confirmed, House Speaker Carl Albert. An Administration headed by either could not fail to seem somehow less legitimate than...