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...ironically, it was Nixon's attempted abuse of Attorney General Richardson that may have wounded the President most seriously. By his strong proclamation that justice must not be subverted in handling Agnew's graft and contract kickbacks, Richardson had only the week before enhanced his already considerable reputation for rectitude and propriety. The Agnew stand undoubtedly was taken at Nixon's behest. Now, by resigning rather than bowing to Nixon's bludgeon tactics against Cox, Richardson may have dealt the President a mortal political blow...
...Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits of Lyndon Johnson as a nearsighted longhorn steer, J. Edgar Hoover as a squat bulldog and Spiro Agnew as a hyena occasionally annoyed editors and readers. As a result, papers sometimes dropped the strip. Kelly professed indifference ("They usually come back"), but he sometimes prepared alternative, apolitical episodes and let his subscribers choose...
...Louis Globe-Democrat admitted its "disappointment that Agnew has been dishonest in more than his tax reports. He attempted to deceive the American public with his protestations of innocence and his insistence that he would not resign ... Most of the 'damn lies' about Agnew seemed to have been told...
...McGinniss, after a visit to the Watergate hearings, returns with the unsurprising news of dissension in the Senate committee and its staff. Short pieces on what people were saying about Spiro Agnew in a Baltimore bar and around Palm Springs suggest that reporters who sit around and listen might be better off going out and digging...
These stories were also rendered obsolete by Agnew's resignation a day after New Times hit the newsstands. The cover picture, Agnew's face superimposed on a golf ball, gained new force-leaving aside questions of taste. The supporting story-a two-page list of assorted choices to succeed the Vice President -is timely but frivolous. Eugene McCarthy nominates Pat Nixon, Cartoonist Jules Feiffer likes Bebe Rebozo, Senator William Saxbe votes for himself...