Word: spiros
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Among the unique and troubling aspects of the nation's political crisis is that President Nixon's impeachment now would place in the White House for three long years a man who had not been elected to national office. Since the resignation of former Vice President Spiro Agnew three weeks ago, there have been two possible successors to Nixon on the scene: his Vice President-designate Gerald Ford, or, should Nixon's departure come before Ford is confirmed, House Speaker Carl Albert. An Administration headed by either could not fail to seem somehow less legitimate than...
...legal experts to study how the House should proceed, if the holder of either office resigned or had to be impeached. As a result, the House was able to begin action on Ford's nomination and Nixon's possible impeachment without public wrangling. Also, Albert rebuffed Spiro Agnew's attempt to use the House to block the court proceedings against...
Charles R. Nesson '60, professor of Law, who defended Daniel Ellsberg '52 in the Pentagon papers trial, said yesterday that he has received requests for assistance from lawyers representing both former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and E. Howard Hunt...
...SPIRO AGNEW, a lesser crook in the Nixon den of thieves, ended his farewell address to the nation on a note of reassurance. Quoting from a remark made by James A. Garfield upon the assassination of President Lincoln, Agnew said. "Fellow citizens, God reigns and the government in Washington still lives...
During the post-war period, the period of Harvard's (and MIT's) growth and the generally increasing affluence for the middle and upper classes, if not for Cambridge's ethnic and black working class majority, the City Council has been the focus of local bush-league Spiro Agnews. The Council decides zoning changes, hence to a great extent, the scope and character of Harvard's growth. And, with speculators vying for land in the Harvard-MIT strip for commercial and apartment development, there has been a lot of loose money available for political influence. The interests of the working...