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...turned against Richard Nixon and declared that the Watergate mess "smells." Goldwater was wryly saluted by Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, as "the liberals' favorite conservative." Not so. J. Edgar Hoover now looks upright and independent by comparison to L. Patrick Gray III. Even Vice President Agnew inspired the Washington Post to contemplate the prospect of a Nixon retirement and observe that his successor might not be so bad: "Many Democrats [might support] him out of resignation or relief...
...Nixon resigns, should Vice President Agnew also resign? No. If there is one thing the Vice President can back up, it's that he doesn't know what the hell is going on at the White House...
GOVERNOR NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER, 64, stands to gain by his remoteness from Watergate. Likely to win an unprecedented fifth term as Governor of New York, Rocky may have a modest chance of stopping Connally-and Republican Conservatives Spiro Agnew and Ronald Reagan-provided that he can rally moderate Republicans behind...
VICE PRESIDENT SPIRO AGNEW, 54, is as incapable of dissociating himself from the Nixon Administration's misdeeds -though he is trying-as Hubert Humphrey was of detaching himself from Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policy in 1968. Nixon is cool to Agnew, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman disliked him, but Agnew presented himself to the public as a 200% rooter for the team. That will be hard to live down...
...NIXON AND WATERGATE. "I do not want Nixon to resign. Agnew is worse than Nixon. I prefer a weakened Nixon in front of me-he will not have the same prestige as before-to a new Agnew in back of me ... Your people cannot be moved by the killing of yellow people. The killing of Cambodians means nothing to them. Watergate is more important to them, and we put our hope in the Watergate affair...