Word: rumorings
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There's a rumor floating around that the only way President Nixon will resign is if he's offered a coaching job with the Washington Redskins. It just may be the only way to move him out of 1600 Pennsylvania...
...regicide. Why Cromwell? Says Fraser: "I guess I wanted to prove I was more than just a pretty brain." There is no doubt she proves it. Her Cromwell is vast and conscientious. She has read every biography, pored through every broadside of the times, considered every malicious rumor, and records them all before rendering her own considered opinion. The result is sometimes tedious, but Lady Antonia is obviously intent on leaving no flank exposed to attack by scholarly predators...
...choice of Ford ended three days of frenetic speculation that all but paralyzed Washington with rumor and anticipation. It also culminated a notable Nixon effort to give Republicans at least the illusion of participation in the first replacement of a Vice President in the nation's history. No sooner had Agnew delivered his letters of resignation (see following story) than the President launched a nationwide canvass of party sentiment for a successor. One of the first persons he called into the Oval Office was Counsellor Anne Armstrong. "He asked me to get on the phone and sound out opinion...
...Nixon-Agnew meeting added velocity to the tornado of speculation, rumor, charge and countercharge sweeping through Washington. With a federal grand jury in Baltimore poised to hear evidence against Agnew of bribes, extortion and kickbacks dating from his days as a Maryland official, with almost daily fresh revelations of perhaps not illegal but certainly improper gifts of cash, goods and services to Agnew, the crisis seemed close to some kind of explosive resolution. One version had it that Agnew was about to resign and fight his case as a private citizen, another that Nixon was twisting the screws to persuade...
Saddened Man. Whatever the origin of the resignation rumor, it quickly developed a momentum of its own, building up a drumbeat of pressure on Agnew beyond the immediate exigencies of his situation. When Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter phoned Agnew to encourage his old friend, he found himself talking to a weary and saddened man. Reported Carter: "He said that he and his family were under tremendous pressure and that he felt like he was fighting a division with a platoon...