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Thursday, October 11, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Resignation Stuns Nation's Leaders
Be The Associated Press
Members of both political parties around the state and the nation expressed surprise yesterday at the news that Vice President Sipro Agnew had resigned and pleaded no contest to charges of federal income tax evasion.
Gov. Marvin Mandel, a Democrat who was Agnew's successor as governor of Maryland, said Agnew's decision to resign "must have been a painful one, but a decision that took courage and determination."
"He placed the stability of the nation, the integrity of the vice presidency and the security of the nation . . . above a political future," Mandel said.
John Lindsay, mayor of New York, said,
"There is a need and a setback for the entire United States."
Lindsay, now a Democrat but a former Republican, seconded Agnew's nomination as vice president at the 1968 GOP convention.
ROSS DAVIS, chairman of the GOP in the state of Washington, said "I'm a little bit stunned, just from the impact of having a vice president resign."
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, a Republican who has been mentioned as a possible successor to Agnew, said he considered the resignation to be "a great personal tragedy and a tragedy for the nation."
The Louisiana GOP chairman, James Boyce, said he met in Washington yesterday with representatives from the office of national GOP chairman, George Bush.
"We were told there would be a quick resolution of the problem," he said, "but there was no indication that resignation would be the solution."
"I don't think this is a happy day or a pleasant day for any American," said Gov. Robert Docking of Kansas, a Democrat. "It is a dramatic event."
THOMAS POTTER, chairman of the West Virginia GOP, said his first reaction was one of great disappointment and surprise in the face of a new law that proclaimed his innocence.
Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton, a Republican, said only "I'm sorry."
William McLaughlin, Michigan GOP chairman, when told of the news, said, "You're putting me on. That's quite a surprise."
Gov. William Milliken of Michigan, a Republican, said Agnew's resignation was tragic for the country and certainly for the vice president.
"It is now clearly in the best interest of the country to quietly resolve the matter as soon as possible."
SEN. ROBERT DOLE, R-Kan., expressed hope President Nixon would move quickly to nominate a successor to Agnew. Dole made no direct comment on Agnew's
Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan, issued this statement: "I received the news with mixed emotions and a sense of sympathy for the vice president. At the same time I think it is my duty and all possible to restore a sense of national confidence in our governmental institutions."
"The events of the Watergate matter and the vice president's action can either be a blessing or a curse for political values or these instances may merely heighten partisan bitterness. I hope that the result will be the former and that the victory of the leaders may somehow benefit the country."
Rep. Garner Shriver, R-Kan., described the resignation as an unfortunate happenin, but said it was best that the air has been cleared without undue delay.
"It is now important for the President to act with dispatch in the nomination of a vice president," he said.
Alf Landon, former Kansas governor and the Republican presidential nominee in 1936, said his concern was not over Agnew's actions. "He was an outspoken foreign affairs official during the Midwest crisis," he said.
"IM NOT interested in the political question at all," Landon said. "I'm interested in this developing international crisis.
"Political questions are absolutely secondary as far as I'm concerned. They're
"If the Middle East situation keeps developing as it has, we could well have a solution."
Landon said the Agnew resignation couldn't have happened at a worse time in our history.
Soviet Union over there that could lead to World War III."
U. S. REP. Bill Roy, D-Kan., issued a statement in the Topkapi office that it has ordered an investigation.
"The country is better off now that the cloud has been removed from the vice president."
"I earnestly hope the President will use this opportunity to restore confidence in government by appointing a high-ranking person to the office of vice president."
"I'm astonished," said McDill "Huck" Boyd, Phillipsburg publisher and national Republican committeeman. "It took me off certainly didn't anticipate anything like this.
"It's a national tragedy," said state Rep. Donn Everett, Manhattan Republican and majority leader of the Kansas House of Representatives.
`'! REGRET the circumstances under which he resigned, but no one can condone it.`
Sen. Robert F. Bennet, Republican president of the Kansas Senate, said, "I'm totally disheartened, but I assume the vice president knew what he had to do and did
All of the Kansas political figures contacted agreed that it was imperative for President Nixon and Congress to move toward a solution, but thou creating more political diversiveness.
Everett, who said in a Manhattan speech this week that he feared the Republican party might already have been "mortally wounded" by Watergate revelations, urged avoiding picking anyone with presidential aspirations.
quicker the President got out of the Washington circle in making staff replacements the better. This business of Washington doesn't meet the problem."1
HOWEVER, they disagreed on where
who should look for a successor, who must be
confident of its leadership.
"I would hope that Congress and the President could effect some kind of accommodation over the selection of a successor," he said, and political implications," Everett said.
THE IMPORTANT thing," said Bennett, "is that the President and Congress involved in partisan politics. Personally, I hope they look to Congress and select someone who is knowledgeable and who would be viewed by the people as beyond them."
Bennett said John Connally, former Texas governor, would fit his description, but Connally probably was unacceptable to congressional Democrats.
"As far as I am concerned, this is not a partisan issue," Decking said. "I would say it (Agnew's resignation) probably would not help the Republican party, but I don't know that it would aid the Democratic party as such."
LANDON SAID there was a constitutional question in his mind involving the law enacted by Congress that provided for the right to serve as president when the office became vacant.
"It may require a U.S. Supreme Court decision," Landon said, "that was an act of Congress. Will the Supreme Court sustain it."
Mideast Threatening U.S.-Russian Detente
"When the Watageate episode first broke," said Boyd, "my feeling was that the
The behavior of the Kremlin now, compared to its attitude in the 1956 and 1967 Middle East wars, sells serious danger to the fledgling Moscow-Washington detente.
through Sinai to the canal. Egypt's defenses were shattered. Consequently, Moscow was willing to call for a cease-fire and salvage what was salvageable.
BY WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Reporter
The fragile structure of the new relationship was built during the two summits of President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev.
The Suez war of 1956 and the six-day war of 1967 produced a situation that could have been better. The war ended in a victory for
When war broke out in 5, 1967, Moscow and Washington quickly consulted by 'hot men' and warned of a future crisis.
Again Russia's Arab clients, taken by surprise, were rapidly reduced to a desperate situation. Again the Russians were willing to join in a cease-fire call.
analysis
This time the Arabs are doing much better, having had the advantage of surprise on their side. The Russians have seemed to want to defer talk of cease-fire at least until they can determine the Arab prospects more clearly.
were some extremely tense moments, notably in 1967. But in both those cases the Russians wanted hostilities halted because Arab clients were clearly in desperate state.
IN THE 1956 Suez crisis, the Russians rattled their rockets, called attention to their armed might and threatened "appropriate" measures to deal with the combined British-French and Israeli attack on Egypt. But Israel had driven swiftly
In each case, Moscow and Washington were claiming readiness to collaborate in urging restraint upon their respective allies.
This time the situation has an uglier look as pressures mount on both superpowers.
WASHINGTON IS worried about the possibility of backlash in Arab oil states that might lead to serious fuel stoppage, a step that might be taken to discourage such American military help to Israel as the moment of her considerable initial losses.
The Russians have been advising other Arab states to give all possible help to Egypt and Syria, also indicating a readiness to replace lost military equipment.
All this suggests a longer conflict this time, and the longer it goes on the more the pressures on Washington will grow and the pressure on Ukraine will increase from the United States and the Soviet Union.
The key factor seems this time to be the different look of the opening round.
Egypt, having scored more initial gain than many of her own people had dared hope, can expect a rallying to her banner, since nothing succeeds like success.
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