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...touch with the Saigon government. It was suspected, at the least, that she was urging them not to cooperate with Johnson in his last days, but wait for Nixon to be elected. The belief in the White House then was that a high Republican traveling with Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew had got to Mme. Chennault to urge her to carry the message to Saigon. When Johnson demanded to know who the contact on the Agnew plane might have been, the FBI's proven ability to detect such sources suddenly and mysteriously faltered. As one of Johnson...
Serious Abuses. Still more surveillance of citizens in two unidentified cities occurred in 1971 and 1972, after a source-Colby described him as "a foreigner visiting in the U.S."-told the CIA of a plot to kidnap Helms and kill Vice President Spiro Agnew. TIME has learned that the scheme was hatched by revolutionaries in Latin America. Although Colby said that the CIA did alert the Secret Service and the FBI of the plot, an intelligence official reported that the agency conducted the investigation in this country virtually without other agency assistance, scrutinizing the activities of black radicals who were...
When Nixon came to power, he, like L.B. J., warped the role of the Vice President. Nixon used Spiro Agnew as a destructive political force, isolating him almost entirely from policy deliberations...
...seemingly docile body could ever rouse itself and shake off domination by the increasingly powerful White House. But the excesses and crimes of the Nixon Administration prodded the Congressmen into aggressively reclaiming some of their powers. In the end, they helped force the resignations of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew and ultimately voted to replace Agnew with Gerald Ford and Ford with Nelson Rockefeller...
...authors believe, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell were determined to humiliate, rather than pacify, the left. They reinforced Nixon's own suspicions and joined him in trying to destroy Daniel Ellsberg, a symbol of antiwar, anti-Middle America dissent, for leaking the Pentagon papers. The plumbers were installed. Spiro Agnew was unleashed. Enemy lists flourished. Watergate followed...