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...Will you vote to confirm Gerald Ford...
After Agnew resigned and the Secret Service agents arrived to protect him as next in line to Nixon, Albert was trying to speed the day when they would no longer be needed. "Jerry," he told his friend Ford, "I would vote to confirm you today." Because of the scandal-ridden climate of the times, however, Albert felt (and Ford agreed) that he had to order the Judiciary Committee to be thorough in its investigation of Ford. But he rebuffed Democratic partisans who demanded that he delay House action until after the Senate acts. He explained: "I think I have...
With the same irreverence, Sinclair looks upon the ideological bias of the university and speaks without much gentleness or kindness of the so-called "open market of ideas." Course-study at Harvard, he observes, is governed by "class-ignorance, class-fear (and) class-repression." Harvard "sets forth statistics" to confirm that it is not a rich man's school. Yet the character of its accepted courses--as much that which is kept out as that which has been retained--reflects the wishes of its Overseers. The revolutionary struggles of the present decade, he observes, are not offered to the students...
...would be wrong not to confirm Ford," O'Neill continued. "A Republican administration was elected in 1972 for a four-year period. To deprive them of that victory would be terrible...
...course, because of their resistance to naming confidential sources. Doing a little leaking of his own, a source close to Agnew's defense indicated to TIME that the lawyers may not insist that reporters name each individual who provided information: the newsmen may be asked merely to confirm under oath that their stories accurately attributed leaks to "Justice Department sources." But what if they balk at this compromise? Will Agnew's attorneys then try to use the court's contempt power? "Obviously," said TIME's source, "they'd be inclined...