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GODDAMNIT, the guy was innocent. In the spring of 1973, a group of federal prosecutors, backed by others of the unkempt left, alleged that Spiro T. Agnew, then Vice President of the United States, had taken bribes, evaded taxes, and in general betrayed the public trust. The attempt to air the charges in some legal fashion suffered a little when Agnew, thinking as usual of his country, pleaded nolo contendere to a minor tax charge and avoided a trial. But the truth can hide only so long. The word is out now, in hardback, $10.95 from William Morrow...
...think all of America's foreign policy would have changed under the Agnew administration. Nixon made some grand decisions in his day, Spiro beams, pointing to one widely-heralded example: "I was so proud of Nixon the day the troops went into the Cambodian sanctuaries in the spring of 1970 that I stopped him in the hall after he had announced it to the cabinet. 'Mr. President,' I said, 'I admire you for having the courage to make that tough decision...
Back in 1970, when Bush was running unsuccessfully a second time for the U.S. Senate from Texas, he looked to President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for help - but nervously. Nixon was growing testy over attacks charging that he had not liquidated...
...Girl from Ipanema along with his golden oldies while they dined on lobster salad, beef heart and French champagne at the opulent new Rio Palace Hotel. But as usual the boy from Hoboken did the gig his way. Flying down to Rio with a surprise fellow traveler, Spiro Agnew-"I'm here on business" muttered the former Veep-Sinatra helicoptered to the hotel, shouldered his way through adoring throngs, and thereafter ventured out of his $750-a-day suite only for rehearsals and performances. Sniffed his pressagent: "If he wanted to be treated like an animal, he could have...
More typical of the '70s was the repeated theme of greed and corruption. In one poem, W.H. Auden described the '30s as "a low, dishonest decade." That verdict would apply to numerous episodes in the '70s: the various thuggeries of Watergate, the offenses that led Spiro Agnew to resign, Lockheed's worldwide bribery, the office employment policies of Wayne Hays. One of the more bizarre spin-offs of Watergate was its literary industry; almost everyone, good guys and bad guys alike, the Deans, Haldemans, Jaworskis, Ehrlichmans, Colsons and so on, sat down at tape recorder...