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...Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to income tax evasion...
Watergate was still dominating the headlines when, on Oct. 6, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holidays. Four days later, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Over the next 10 days, Middle East and Persian Gulf nations organized a total oil embargo against the U.S. because of its support for Israel. And on Oct. 20, one day before the embargo took full effect, came the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon ordered special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired, Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in protest, and an honest-to-God constitutional crisis was born...
...second anti-war teach-in that he organized, several prominent Republicans who were opposed spoke at a hotel in Boston while former vice president Spiro Agnew was in the city...
...eventually added some deep shadows to J.F.K.'s definition of executive privilege. He passed along a mistress to the President, Judith Exner, who was also a favorite of Giancana's. Kennedy used her, but eventually froze Sinatra out of Camelot. Sinatra responded bitterly and swung right. He golfed with Spiro Agnew, sang (wonderfully) at the Nixon White House and partied with the Reagans...
...simple knowledge that information of the final portion of Harrington's book arose from candid conversation between doctors and divinity professors, neurologists and national health program directors, causes the reader to cling to every word of the last 40 pages. Some dialogue is amusing--Professor Spiro of Yale speaks of "feeling like a knight, very macho" when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each...