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...massive emotional and political forces already pushing against him could be strengthened. Even before the Agnew confession there was overwhelming evidence of a new and deeper national souring on Nixon, the result of people pondering at the summer's end the meanings in the Watergate hearings and the economic poundings and seeing this nation rushing toward scarcity while a helpless and indifferent Administration is absorbed in its own salvation...
...despite the preponderance of evidence against Agnew, Nixon's natural allies on the right feel betrayed by the President and at least for the moment some are inclined to take out their anger on Nixon, who they feel executed Agnew. Egil Krogh, another of Nixon's White House aides from the days of infamy, was indicted last week, a harbinger that Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's vast apparatus is beginning to gather momentum in the courts. The Hughes money given to Bebe Rebozo for the Nixon campaign has an ominous ring. Is this...
Those White House team players, big and little, have pulled apart and formed their own defenses, tried to reorder their shattered worlds. To some of them, it is now clear that Nixon was their nemesis. In private, they wonder just how long Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Agnew-maybe Rebozo-and their tortured wives and children can cling to their professions of presidential innocence, can display faulty memories and live behind legal gimmicks. Will one break...
...court battle over pretrial publicity and the protection of newsmen's sources was avoided last week because of Spiro Agnew's resignation. The subpoenas that had been issued to journalists became moot. The basic issues, however, remain very much alive...
...memorandum filed with the federal district court in Maryland before the resignation, the Justice Department-some of whose officials had also been subpoenaed by Agnew's attorneys-set forth some stinging arguments against this kind of judicial interference. The department pointed out that "publicity about the criminal investigation of any newsworthy person is all too likely, and some of that publicity will almost inevitably be unfavorable." But the department argued that news stories do not necessarily prevent fair proceedings and noted that grand jurors' exposure to prejudicial publicity "has never been considered a proper ground even for dismissal...