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TIME magazine last week became involved in Vice President Spiro Agnew's legal battle to stop the Baltimore grand jury's hearing of evidence against him. This is our position in the matter...
...Vice President Spiro Agnew, battling to preserve his post and his political future, there was good news and bad news last week. He won a surprise and legally surprising tactical victory in his efforts to halt leaks from the grand jury's investigation of him for bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax evasion. Yet the President of the U.S. went out of his way to set the public record straight on his support of the prosecution and the seriousness of the charges, even as he accepted Agnew's right, fiercely asserted the week before, not to resign if indicted...
...part, read one of the more unusual directives ever issued by a U.S. federal judge. The order, by Judge Walter E. Hoffman, came last week in response to complaints by lawyers representing Vice President Spiro Agnew, who is being investigated by a Maryland grand jury for allegedly taking bribes and for other misconduct. The lawyers had contended that the grand jury's investigation should be halted because a campaign of "malicious, immoral and illegal" leaks by Justice Department officials was designed to deprive the Vice President of his "basic rights to due process and fair hearing...
...last night, from his $190,000 Bethesda, Md., home, Spiro Agnew watched the man who chose him as a running mate in 1968 name House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R-Mich.) to succeed...
Nixon, looking confident and jovial, made no mention of the scandal which brought the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew on Wednesday, or the other scandals which have beset his administration...