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...danger is that an honest search for the facts may be derailed by ideological passion. The left has seized the occasion to romanticize the "political" prisoners who led their fellow inmates to the slaughter; the right has taken the opportunity to assail the left. Spiro Agnew, for instance, complained that the "radical liberals" and the news media have turned the event into "yet another cause celebre in the pantheon of radical revolutionary propaganda." If this becomes the tone of the investigation, there will be no lesson learned from Attica...
Trying to stop the speculation about who will replace Spiro Agnew on the Republican ticket, President Nixon hinted that maybe nobody would. It was high time to give the Vice President his due, Nixon told his aides, who promptly got busy polishing up the Agnew escutcheon. The Vice President has been handed more visible duties, like defending the Administration's economic policies at this month's meeting of Governors in Puerto Rico. His picture adorned the cover of Monday, the publication of the Republican National Committee. He is slotted for a key role at the four regional conferences...
ATTICA is certainly not the worst of the 4,770 American prisons and jails. It has too much competition. But it is, nonetheless, fairly typical of a penal system that almost everyone agrees is a disgrace. Almost everyone, that is, but Vice President Spiro Agnew, who, in a spasm of Podsnappery, argued on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times last week that "our penal system remains among the most humane and advanced in the world." By and large, the penologists-not to mention the prisoners and ex-convicts-would go along with Senator Edmund Muskie, who told...
Vice President Ky spoke to TIME in the small study of his fortified mansion inside Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase. On a small end table was an autographed photo of Spiro Agnew. Only when the interview was over and he was showing his visitors out did Ky make his most disturbing statement: "In South Viet Nam, you know, the use of force is constitutional." He was pointing out that President Thieu had resorted to force in 1963 as part of the conspiracy that overthrew Ngo Dinh Diem. A repeat of this episode, Ky suggested, would not be impossible...
...beyond that age. The White House announced that any such phone call was entirely "unauthorized," but the revelation that it had been made provided Septuagenarian Meany with some of his few moments of hilarity during the week. Finally the Administration called a truce, sending out that well-known conciliator Spiro Agnew. Speaking in Florida, the Vice President made a point of lauding Meany as "a patriotic American," predicting that he would go along with the wage-price freeze...