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Show PARADES SPECIAL (ID Ud by LLOYD SHEARER 1980 because ni D n i D D UD of volume of mail received, parade regrets rr cannot answer queries Spiro Agnew sorry notoriety. They were the only President and Vice President in U.S. history to resign their elected offices. Neither man went gently into the night. Each -- -- Staff Alexander Haig might in Atlantic (possibly two) more are scheduled to open later in the year. Another 18 sites iri Atlantic City have been targeted for future casino hotels, but no one seems to know how many of these will actually rise by 1985. A prevalent prediction by security analysts who specialize in gambling stocks holds that the gambling boom in Atlantic that by City will be short-live1982 gambling casinos will be operating in revenue-hungr- y New York, thereby taking the play away from New Jersey. -- d Agnew resigned on Oct. 10, 1973, and Nixon quit on Aug. 9, 1974. thought Nixons Chief of BOOiri operating City, N. J. One Vanished Nixon Resignation and share a vehemently denied his culpability, fighting tenaciously to hold fast to his high position. When each finally judged resignation to be his wisest course, he resigned with a minimum of words Nixon using one sentence of 11 words, and Agnew one of 14. The original of Nixons resignation is on file in Washington, D.C., in the National Archives, but Agnew s is not. It has been stolen, lost or misfiled. Asking not be identified, one archivist told Intelligence Report: "Agnews resignation seems to have mysteriously disappeared. We dont know whats happened to it. You can buy a copy for $3 or less, but were convinced theyre copies of a phony. My belief is that the original, which Agnew sent to the Secretary of State, was stolen or misfiled. I think someone who saw or had the original typed up a copy on phony stationery, and copies of that are on sale. "Whoever has the original has a document that will be worth a fortune some day if it can be authenticated. In his latest book, Go in which Quietly. ..or Else he fancifully explains that he had resigned because he this writin three ShOIt At gambling casinos are cGfrge Important Bundy, r. Nixon and Agnew were all smiles on Election Eve 1972, but within two years both were out of office; at top are letters of resignation have him murdered if he hadnt Agnew quotes Judd Best, his lawyer, as telling him on Oct. 10, 1973: Your letter of resignation has been delivered to the Secretary of State as you directed. Agnew on that same date also wrote the following letter of resignation to Nixon: Dear Mr. President: As you are aware, the accusations against me cannot be resolved without a long, divisive and debilitating struggle in the Congress and in the courts. I have concluded that, painful as it is to me and to my family, it is in the best in- terests of the nation that I relinquish the Vice Presidency. Accordingly, I have today resigned the Office of Vice President of the United States. A copy of the instrument of resignation is enclosed. It has been a privilege to serve with you. May I express to the American people, through you, my deep gratitude for their confidence in twice electing me to be Vice President. Sincerely, Spiro T. Agnew The original of the above is in the National Archives, but no copies are available to the public. Its part of the dispute Nixon and his lawyers are engaged in with the Justice Department as to which of his papers and tapes belong to the people. For the record, the Nixon resignation printed on this page is a true copy of the original. The Agnew resignation allegedly is not, because the original is nowhere to be found to be copied. HO I Fit former presi dent of the Ford Foundation and former special assistant for national security affairs under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, is recognized as one of the most knowledgeable and experienced men on U.S. foreign policy. Several weeks ago, Bundy lectured on that subject at Harvard. He gave a remarkably informative talk in which he pointed out a most significant fact: The United States obtains only 15 of its oil from the Persian Gulf countries. Western Europe, on the other hand, obtains 55-6from them, and 5 Japan 75. If the Soviets took control of the Persian Gulf oil resources, the U.S would be sorely inconvenienced, but we could make do with our domestic proimduction and our ports. Our allies, however, would be crippled, their social and economic structures almost completely paralyzed. Thus the "Carter Doctrine, which holds that a direct Soviet attack on the Persian Gulf countries would stimulate an armed response by the United States, is predicated more on securing the basic oil needs of our allies than of ourselves. You can search the Presidents (Carters) words in vain, Bundy declared, for this non-Ara- b d 8 PARADt JUNt 29, I960 |
