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Thursday, October 11, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by CARL DAVAZ
Bulletin
Nancy Dickerson, Hutchinson junior, reads the news of Vice President Agnew's resignation as it is dispatched on the Associated Press wire machine in the
Kansan newsroom. The news of the resignation broke here at 1:34 p.m. yesterday.
Initial Local Reaction To Agnew Is Mild
The news wasn't on everybody's lips yesterday.
As the government of the United States sagged deeper into the most complex and awesome political crisis in the history of the country, Lawrence and the University of Kansas seemed to quickly absorb the news and then turn to other things.
word of Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation spread quickly on campus within a little minute after the news flashed over TV, radio and the Associated Press
In the Kansas Union, a large crowd gathered around the television set on the ground floor, but at least half the crowd apparently was there to see the Cincinnati Reds fight the New York Mets for the National league championship.
IN THE LOBBY of the Union, on the steps of Green Hall, and in the residence halls, conversation among students by 2.30 p.m. was more likely than not to center on topics other than politics. Those who were talking about speculating on who would replace Agnew.
"I bet Nixon picks some jerk who won't be a competition for him," said one student.
The pattern of apparent indifference was repeated throughout the community. Patrons at the Hillcress Barber Shop thumbed through battered copies of Field and Stream and listened intently only to the warnings of severe weather for Douglas
On Massachusetts Street, the only con-
pressions expressed were on the faces of the
street.
"I have no idea who will take Agnew's place," Mark Reed, Overland Park junior, said yesterday when asked he thought why he President Nixon for the vice presidency.
Students Offer Few Choices As Successor
Most people interviewed yesterday on the University of Kansas campus wouldn't speculate on who the vice presidential nominee would be.
"Whoever it is, I don't think Congress will confirm him," said Chuck Bills, an employee of the Kansas Union. "They will want to take him out, and they are really soin't to put the squeeze on."
Rex Powell, Lawrence senior, said he thought there were two lines of thought which led to the conclusion.
"The first is that Connally, former Texas governor, has been hot for the job," he said. "And the other line of thinking is Nixon couldn't stand a strong vice president and William P. Rogers would be used as a dignified vice president stand-in."
Am Oliver, a Paola senior who is active in the Miami County young Republicans, said that she has never had sex with anyone.
Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, said he thought the vice presidential nominee would be someone whose record and hadn't been in public view.
Pat Williams, Leavenworth first year law
Student, said he didn't think Connell would
be able to do that.
The afternoon drinkers in Louis's talked about almost everything except current
"The Democrats will never approve a potential presidential candidate," he said.
"SO SPIO (long "I") T. Agnew resumed," one man said.
"Yeah, I heard," answered his companion.
The opening story of WHB's 3:55 p.m. news broadcast was the Mets' 7-2 victory over the Reds. About a minute and a half was devoted to the vice president, and about twice that amount of time to the war in the Middle East.
possible nonpolitical vice presidential choice. Rogers, 60, recently resigned to return to private law practice. Other persons mentioned included Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan and Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the 1964 GOP nominee of nomination.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lot of names are circulating as potential successors to Spiro T. Agnew as vice president but there are no firm bents on who might get the job.
Agnev's resignation, only the second in Agnev's history and the first since passage of a constitutional amendment providing for selection of a successor, with absolutely no president for what kind of man President Nixon might nominate.
Republican National Chairman George Bush sent telegrams to the members of the Republican National Committee to seek their views on a successor to Agnew.
No Firm Bets Made on Agnew Successor
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, a onetime Nixon rival who in recent years has moved closer to the President, is another possibility.
JOHN CONNALLY, the Texas Democrat turned Nixon Republican, has been frequently mentioned since Agnew's legal troubles first surfaced several weeks ago.
"I don't know who the President is going
Reports that former Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton was flying to Washington stirred rumors that he might be asked to take the tob.
Most lists of vice presidential prospects also include Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, Atty. Gen. Elliot R. Richardson, president aide and former defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, Baker and Bush.
to pick, but I'm not a candidate and I'm not good enough," Cormally told a reporter in counter news.
Profs Disagree
One source cited former Secretary of State William P. Rogers, who has always resisted the idea of a Republican presidency.
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Nehring said it was somewhat difficult to assess the impact of Agnew's resignation because only one other vice president, John McCarthy, served as deputy quit in 1892 to take a seat in the U.S. Senate.
"The most important question now is: Who will succeed Anwey?" Nebring said.
"nounce or the evidence," Laird said, "points in the direction of John Connally as being the front runner to replace Agnew, although there are some who say Congress is going to play the game of politics and reject Connley if nominated by Nixon because of a condition he would make him president." Republican presidential nominee in 1978.
Nehring said Nixon would be "b badly advised" to attempt to use this opportunity to appoint a vice president as a means of giving support to a potential presidential
“This might be a disadvantage to the President,” Nehring said. “His political problems are so great now that I can see no reason for him to compound them by doing that. He's just asking for trouble with Congress if he goes that way.”
CONNALLY, FORMER DEMOCRATIC governor of Texas, was secretary of the treasury in Nixon's first term and has since became a Republican.
"Anyone who is young enough," he said, "in a sense a possible candidate. And Congress simply won't approve a person who could use his appointment for political office."
"ONE SCHOOL OF thought," Laird said, "has it that Congress might not approve Connally and that Nixon should nominate some elder statesman, relatively in the past, to serve as president who acceptable but pose little or no threat as the front runner for the Republican party."
Laird said a person like former ambassador W. Averi Hartman, although he is a Democrat, has long been a contributor to circumstances. Laird also suggested Barry Goldwater, former
Nehring named George Aiken, an aging Republican senator from Vermont, as the chairman of the board.
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Republican presidential candidate and now a senator from Arizona.
"But some say Goldwater is so peaved at the President that he wouldn't accept the vice presidency if it is offered him," Laird said.
But Laird said he didn't agree with the older statesman requirement.
"There's genuine concern that Congress might be too willing to play politics when its sense of responsibility should lead it to voting for a man fully qualified to fill the bill because, after all, the vice president is only a heartbeat away from the presidency and our country can't afford to have a second-rater in that position."
LAIRD TABEED CONNALLY as the most likely candidate, with Goldwater second and Nelson Rockefeller, Republican governor of New York, third.
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