Word: calhouns
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Coach Jim Calhoun's Northeastern team, choking from a host of turnovers and a paltry 29.6 per cent shooting percentage in the first half, never regained their wind until the final minutes of play...
...Calhoun is coach of the Northeastern squad that Harvard is to face just after the Quaker City Tournament. "Satch has done a heck of a job over there," Calhoun said yesterday. Calhoun has seen the Crimson play several times and was most impressed by the "super-D" and the patience on offense that the Crimson exhibited...
...implications of Agnew's request. The men worked late into the night, studying and restudying Agnew's carefully drafted letter and reviewing the House's precedents and practices. To support his request, Agnew had cited an 1827 investigation by a House committee that cleared Vice President John C. Calhoun of charges that he had illegally profited from a Government contract. But there was one key difference between his case and Agnew's: the allegations against Calhoun had been made merely in a newspaper article. Rodino decided that Calhoun would not help Agnew...
SCHLESINGER: Both Vice Presidents Colfax and Calhoun, the two cases often cited, involved actions done before they became Vice President. But they don't provide a clear precedent. In the Calhoun case, the House accepted the responsibility to appoint a select committee to investigate charges made against Calhoun some years before. In the Colfax case, it declined to do so. In the Agnew case, not only do the two precedents glance in different directions, but we aren't even clear that the complaints against him do not spill over into his vice presidency...
There was even less agreement on whether a presidential immunity from prosecution applies to a Vice President. Although three previous Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr, John C. Calhoun and Schuyler Colfax) were threatened with criminal charges, none was either brought to trial or impeached, so there are no clear precedents. Kurland believes that since only the President is indispensable, only he enjoys the privilege of immunity. According to the Constitution, the Vice President's sole duty is to preside over the Senate-and to be ready to succeed the President if necessary. But Bickel argues that immunity also applies...