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...knows, moreover, that front runners for the presidency are especially vulnerable to attack. So he is more than willing to lie low for a time. A Gallup poll taken last month showed that Spiro Agnew was the top choice among Republicans, with 35%. Reagan came next (20%), while Connally was third (15%). As time goes by, Connally's standing could easily rise. There have been tantalizing hints that he is Nixon's first choice. Though his Texas wheeler-dealer image may hurt him a bit because of the public revulsion over Watergate, he is at least as forceful...
Divorced. Zeppo Marx, 72, the youngest Marx Brother (real name: Herbert), who quit the madcap vaudeville and movie team in 1934 to become an actors' agent; and Barbara Marx, fortyish, former model and current golfing and tennis pal of Frank Sinatra and Vice President Spiro Agnew; after 14 years of marriage, no children; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...helping to reveal the truth. After the speech, he told reporters to "continue to give me hell whenever you think I'm wrong." Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler the next day publicly apologized to the Washington Post for his past denunciations of the paper's Watergate coverage. Spiro Agnew followed with his own peace offering by lamenting the "unfortunate hostility" that has existed between officials and journalists. Both sides, he said, should "put aside visceral reaction and engage in a productive and intelligent discussion of their differences...
...large news organizations, precisely the ones assailed by Spiro Agnew and others, that mustered the resources and courage to dig out the facts and present them to a national audience. Smaller newspapers and local TV stations, often patted on the head by the Administration for their "straight" reporting, simply lacked the means...
Nixon suffered the further indignity of hearing his Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew, attest to his boss's integrity -thereby calling attention to the fact that it was in question. For several weeks, Agnew's aides had spread the word that the Vice President was "appalled" by Nixon's handling of the Watergate scandal. But Agnew last week read a 90-second prepared statement saying that he wanted it known that "I have full confidence in the integrity of President Nixon and in his determination and ability to resolve the Watergate matter to the full satisfaction...