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...White House waved its wand last week-and overnight former Vice President Spiro Agnew was left defenseless in Frank Sinatra's compound in Palm Springs. Finally knuckling under to congressional pressure, GAO rulings and public criticism of the nearly $200,000 spent on Agnew's protection since he resigned in October, the White House withdrew not only his Secret Service guards but his car and chauffeur too. Still, Agnew's trip to Palm Springs had a positive side. He sold his novel, A Very Special Relationship, to Playboy Press for "more than $50,000." The book centers...
...There have been a lot of foul and odorous things in previous administrations, but just look at Nixon's record," he told the group. Citing former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's felony conviction and the indictment of 14 White House associates, Rather added, "the Harding administration is not even comparable...
...persons have been charged for crimes under the rubric of Watergate, and many others-such as H.R. Haldeman, the former White House chief of staff-have hired lawyers to protect themselves. Private legal fees can be brutal, as Spiro Agnew learned while running up bills reliably reported to total $200,000. Former White House Counsel John Dean has probably incurred bills of $50,000. John Ehrlichman, Nixon's former chief domestic adviser, is fighting court actions on both coasts that may already have cost him $100,000. New York Attorney Henry Rothblatt charged $125,000 to defend four Watergate...
...Neill showed his influence-and political sensitivity-last September when Spiro Agnew sought to have the House of Representatives investigate reports that he had accepted bribes from Maryland contractors. During the meeting between the Vice President and the Democratic leadership, O'Neill immediately sensed that Agnew was desperately trying to keep the case out of the courts. When there was some indecision about how the matter should be handled, O'Neill was the man mainly responsible for convincing Speaker Albert that he should reject the plea out of hand...
...long before President Nixon did. An editor at Doubleday, a serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit about a U.S. Vice President who is manipulated by Chinese Communists...