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The issue of whether a president can be indicted and the context of watergate, they believe that nixon really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and again, he was there when it was written is in the course of expressing the view that a vice president can be indicted, which was the imperative of the moment, robert dixson opined on the presidents ameanbility to the indic...

Scratching place where the opinion could come out either pro or con criminal process for the vice president and at that stage, one evening, i took a phone call from the late robert dickson who said do you have any idea how the attorney general wants this to turn out? >> do you have any idea how the a.g. wants this to turn out? and honestly, who could blame robert dixson? its not like you can pull out the constitution and find an answer to whether the vice president can be indicted. nobody had th...

And the way that the history of it has been remembered since then is that that 1973 olc memo was written specifically with the richard nixon watergate problem in mind and it was a definitive look at whether a president can be indicted, and even in the context of watergate they believed that nixon -- really it was about agnew and specifically trying to get to an outcome where the answer would be, yeah, you can bring charges against agnew. what j.t. smith is saying here and, again, he was there wh...

Whether the vice president can be indicted. nobody had thoroughly grappled with this question before. what j.t. dixon -- very much hoped that opinion would come out in favor of the position that you could indict a sitting vice president. of course we know that richardson was looking for anything he could use to get agnew out of office and out of the line of succession. robert dixons opinion ultimately did conclude, as richardson wanted, that a vice president can be indicted. but listen to what j...