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Nixon himself apparently initiated the plea bargaining in which Agnew and the Justice Department have participated. And the chances are good that Agnew's confession of his sins will in a perverse way help the man who thrust Agnew into the national spotlight in July...
...crime was a remarkably petty one, and his conduct as Vice President self-seeking and myopic. Faced with the prospect of a jail sentence, he thought of his office only as a shield between himself and prison, a chip to be offered in the century's most important plea bargaining session. Similarly, White House staffers during the 1972 campaign saw their posts only as means to insure Nixon's re-election, regardless...
...Jones news service reported that the Justice Department had tentatively agreed to allow Agnew to plea guilty to a minor charge in return for Agnew's resignation...
...lashed out at the Justice Department and the press for leaking information about the investigation. At the same time, he engaged in "plea bargaining" by tendering his resignation in return for lesser charges and a request by the Justice Department for clemency...
Moral Aspects. Different speakers at the U.N. warned the Soviet Union that it will have to pay a price for the kind of detente it seeks. Chancellor Willy Brandt's speech, marking West Germany's entrance into the U.N., was primarily devoted to a plea for peace, justice and an end to poverty. He pointedly spoke of "the moral aspects of international coexistence. It is peace that benefits if people and information can move as freely as possible across boundaries," he declared. British Foreign Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home also echoed that theme. Gromyko's answer...