B.Y.O.T.F.

(Bring Your Own Tin Foil)

Spiro Agnew resigned in October, '73. Nixon less than a year later, in August '74.
By the time Agnew had resigned, 5 of the Watergate burglars had plead guilty, Haldeman and Erlichman had resigned, and John Dean had been testifying in the Senate.

So my question is; Did somebody see the writing on the wall in '73, and make the decision to get Agnew out of the way before Nixon left, so that Agnew wouldn't be the President?

It has always been my impression that Agnew was mainly on that ticket to make Nixon look good by comparison. And I don't think I am alone in that sentiment:

"Nixon chose him to be his far-right, hippie-bashing, anti-intellectual attack dog - a role he (along with speechwriters William Safire and Pat Buchanan) clearly relished."

"Some cynics saw the selection of Agnew as a running mate as Nixon's insurance against being assassinated. Considering all of the assassinations in the sixties, any kind of insurance would have been prudent. But even Nixon-haters were glad it never came to that. He was a lightning-rod for liberals and Agnew's troubles - no matter how damaging to the Republican Party - certainly helped keep Nixon's troubles off the front page."
http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/News/1973/October/10-Agnew_Resigns.asp

And evidently, even Agnew himself thought something like this happened:

"After resigning his post and paying his fines, Agnew wrote... a paranoid and unapologetic memoir entitled Go Quietly or Else, where he claimed Nixon's henchmen were out to get him and that the president "naively believed that by throwing me to the wolves, he had appeased his enemies.""

So, who would have such power? Are there people who can manipulate events to this degree? How would it unfold today? Who would call whom to put a plan in motion?

Has anyone read the Agnew book, "Go Quietly Or Else"?

I've got my tin foil shaped into a jaunty pirate style chapeau.

NIX-ON AG-NEW WAR!

Dick Nixon before Nixon dicks you.