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...might be a good time to look at the other side of the Watergate coin. To get specific, I am suspicious of the current attack on Vice President Spiro Agnew [Aug. 20]. The attack seems too well planned and all too well timed. I suspect that this is a calculated political effort by the media to lynch Agnew, even before a grand jury convenes...
Then, over the sweltering Labor Day weekend, Nixon flew from San Clemente back to the White House to confer with Vice President Spiro Agnew over the continuing Federal investigation of possible bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax fraud that threatens Agnew's future. Inevitably, rumors swirled that the President and his semi-estranged Vice President were heading for a confrontation-that Nixon might even ask for Agnew's resignation. On both sides, press spokesmen vigorously denied that any resignation was even being considered...
...democratic process," Americans by and large do not want him to leave the presidency. They have three main reasons for that stand: 1) they tend to blame the men around Nixon more than the President for creating the scandal; 2) they would be "dissatisfied" with Vice President Spiro Agnew as a replacement; and 3) they fear the probable impact, both at home and abroad, of the President's impeachment or his resignation...
...reporters ignored Nixon's announcement and zeroed in on stories that they thought he had been avoiding. Of 20 questions put to the President -some with a hostility that bordered on rudeness-no fewer than 16 involved Watergate and directly related matters. Two others concerned Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's legal troubles, another concerned assassination attempts, and a final query centered on the Cambodian bombing. Of this single-mind-edness, the President complained at one point: "We've had 30 minutes of this press conference, and I have yet to have, for example, one question...
...slightest connection with Watergate and who could convince voters that justice would finally be brought to bear on those responsible for the scandal. Last week, as Richardson was dealing not only with Watergate but also with a whole new closet of dirty linen possibly involving Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, he was subtly but unmistakably rebuked for his performance by both the President and Vice President. The separately delivered scoldings only underscored the anomaly of his uncomfortable middleman's position: Richardson is charged with overseeing investigations of the only two federal executives who rank above...