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...living in purgatory. I have found myself the recipient of undefined, unclear, unattributed accusations that have surfaced in the largest and most widely circulated organs in our communications media." The sources of those leaks, said the Vice President, were in the Justice Department and, specifically, in the person of Petersen: "The conduct of high individuals in the Department of Justice, particularly the conduct of the chief of the criminal-investigations division, is unprofessional and malicious and outrageous...
...case. They have been severely stung that the President and the Attorney General have found it necessary to appoint a special prosecutor, and they are trying to recoup their reputations at my expense. I'm a big trophy. Well, I'm not going to fall down and be his [Petersen's] victim, I can assure you." He added that Petersen had not only mishandled Watergate but, through "blunder," had also prevented the successful prosecution of high crime figures because of wiretapping errors...
...sooner had Agnew showed up at his office on Monday morning than he heard that CBS-TV Correspondent Fred Graham had quoted Henry Petersen as saying of the Vice President: "We've got the evidence. We've got it cold." An infuriated Agnew described the comment as "scandalous." Later in the day Richardson announced that he was canceling a speaking engagement in Texas because "of the most pressing of national business." Snapped Agnew: "A grandstand play...
...next morning Richardson and Petersen met with President Nixon in the Oval Office to report that they had been unable to work out a compromise settlement with Agnew's lawyers. Exactly who had sought a compromise is still un clear. The Justice Department implies that the bargaining was proposed by Agnew's attorneys. Agnew's camp angrily insists that it was the department that offered a deal...
...publicly assailing Henry E. Petersen as the key figure in a plot to ruin him, Spiro Agnew is taking on a formidable opponent. A savvy bureaucratic infighter who has risen higher in the Justice Department than any other civil service employee, Petersen has many influential defenders in Washington. He is the plain speaking, rugged Chief of the Criminal Division, whose engagingly blunt testimony before the Senate Watergate committee won the respect of millions of television viewers...