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...Spiro T. Agnew...
...that four students "were killed" after National Guardsmen "were sent" on campus, suggesting that both events were acts of God which no one else could possibly be held responsible for. Similarly, the new grand jury naturally investigated the individual Guardsmen who fired shots, not the people--President Nixon, Spiro T. Agnew, Governor Rhodes--who made the shootings possible...
...American political system is built in part on contingency planning, and it could be that what is happening in Washington is nothing more than that. Yet it is another part of the tide that rises against Nixon. On the day that Spiro Agnew resigned, Mel Laird looked at his old friend Jerry Ford, then the minority leader of the House, and he said, "Jerry, some day you are going to be President." Laird insists that he was looking down the line of normal political evolution to the 1976 election. But a lot of leaders in Government are now conditioning themselves...
...authors, while patents are for inventors. Still, said the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, there can be an overlap; and in such cases, the author-inventor may ask for both forms of protection. The new winner in this fledgling category is Richard Q. Yardley, who created the Spiro Agnew wristwatch. For its qualities as a "work of art," said the court, the watch deserves a copyright. For its "new, original and ornamental design," it gets a design patent...
...October of 1973, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew asked for virtually the same material from reporters from The Washington Post and other news organizations. He wanted to know who in government was fingering him, so he could deal with them personally or have the President "summarily" fire them...