Mr. Agnew had been in Coventry for the three years since his resignation and

disbarment, following his conviction on charges of tax evasion, but he had just emerged as the author of a suspense novel, The Canfield Decision, in which a Vice President defies his President and comes out for sending intermediate-range ballistic missiles to Israel. STA: "You notice, in this case, the President does not directly order. He can. The sanctions available to him are simply to call the Vice President in and say, 'Look, Mr. Vice President, this is enough of this. I don't want any more.' At that point--" WFB: "Well, what is the sanction then? You can isolate him?" STA: "Isolate him or cut off his budget; send him up to the Senate--" WFB: "Can he cut off his budget?" STA: "Oh, yes." WFB: "What does one do then?" STA: "Well, you have to go up to the Senate and stay there, I suppose." WFB: "God! That's a terrible sanction, isn't it?" STA: "But really the economic sanctions, the aircraft-- Everything the Vice President has is the President's to give or take away, with the exception of his salary, of course; that's prescribed."