Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chin up, eyes level, voice resonant with righteous indignation, Spiro Agnew sent his tormentors a message last week: "I am innocent of the charges against me. I will not resign if indicted, I will not resign if indicted!" His audience, a national convention of Republican women in Los Angeles, erupted in wild applause, cheering and cries of "Right on!," and some even danced on tables. The message, carried nationwide on TV, got across: any reports that the Vice President of the U.S. was about to quit under fire were greatly exaggerated...
...Justice officials and Agnew's lawyers had been unable to agree on a bargain under which the Vice President would resign and be charged with a lesser offense than the evidence warranted...
...quiet, unassuming woman who never wanted to enter the minefields of politics. Unlike Pat Nixon, who has been steeled by many crises in the past, Mrs. Agnew is experiencing her first ordeal. For the first time she has been confronted by reporters demanding, "Is your husband going to resign?" Calmly, she answered, "You'll have to ask my husband...
Legally, Agnew could fight an indictment for any possible transgressions so much more effectively as Vice President that it made no sense for him to resign unless he could have engineered a deal. The President could not force him to quit; he had been elected by the voters just as Nixon...
...being indicted in Maryland-if the courts ruled that he could not be tried while a Vice President-and being impeached on the Hill. But if the evidence against him is truly compelling, that logic would not likely be allowed to stand, for he would then surely have to resign as Vice President-and thereby become indictable...