Is that what it takes to go all the way in politics? Ambition first, everything else back in the pack? And if… — Charles Sheffield

At stake with something more important than sex. At stake was life and death.

Richard Nixon was protected from impeachment, so long as Spiro Agnew was Vice President and would assume the presidency in Nixon’s place. Half of Washington knew that Agnew was a crook, and a boneheaded one at that. They had to get rid of Agnew before they could really go after Nixon.

Right decision or wrong decision, it was a leader’s job to make it.