Word: agnewism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lucid observer. But she is so detached and dignified that the novel lacks fire. Her gentility dulls the effectiveness of a potentially enlivening technique: the difficult one of mixing real Washington characters with fictional ones. Such household names as Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, Judy Agnew, Betty Ford Rosalynn Carter- and Gene McCarthy -move fleetingly through the story. All are portrayed in flattering terms...
...SPIRO AGNEW. Nixon revealed that he had been unwilling to rely solely on the recommendations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson after an investigation was begun of kickbacks paid by Maryland contractors to his Vice President. Nixon asked that Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen, a Democrat, make his own investigation of the case. "There was no secret Richardson and Agnew didn't like each other. There was no secret that Richardson had ambitions to be Vice President or President in 1976, and earlier if possible." After Petersen concurred that the charges would lead to a recommendation of a prison sentence...
This week's fourth installment in the Nixon-Frost series will cover the ex-President's tax problems, his assets, the role of the CIA in covert operations (including Chile), Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation, Nixon's final days in office and his pardon...
...discussing Agnew, Nixon recounts the excuses that Agnew offered him about charges of accepting payoffs -even while he was Vice President -from Maryland contractors in return for favorable treatment he had given them while Governor of that state. According to Nixon, Agnew insisted he had never accepted such money "while he was in the White House" and that, anyway, "half the members of the Senate who have served as Governors" had accepted kickbacks from contractors...
...fourth show Nixon discusses Agnew's resignation, unresolved questions about his personal finances and why he did not pardon his two top aides. Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. He also vents his anger at The Final Days, the bestselling account of his downfall by the two Watergate reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. He calls the duo "trashy people who wrote a trashy book," and pointedly notes that his wife suffered a stroke three days after she read...