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THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESD. ¢ Times dvise and Fictionalize By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HA Ar Bhalla 8TH : TE a NY. By oh Soh Ee, GTIPalcrpretarn,- eae rae Anat DECISION 3 Bo ante T. Agnew, Besides ‘heirig a sickly plotted, fast- alkerpund ‘ prmessional job of novel- Company,” by John D. thé former susiatantt f0 the | pone for ei First ie in i jabels op wits 3 be ee fee oe ‘& Son oe receiver inte e slate as. as hecan whenever’ he finkshos 4, + «happen not to be'one of his most fervent Fer years this uninten ren ht. €, sud- ; conversation, “Fe fs. Abeer over aioe! ot tae! nica?” empins punctua jective thes ache which he neither con stood. "a doa't: ‘knérw whether this detail is based .0 g actual or. not, but it sure scunds plausible enough. —- A ‘Bubstance of Reality ‘$o it doeen't, matter that Mr. Bhrtiéh- ” cagcien, Bave silly. political-novel ‘man’s Curry. (a ey a as. William .Archer See fl nk, - - "galled me Mr. President,’ j.° make some little note of that;: ': may cothe up later. The’ bean fing 3" a gifted “or under. - President: who was idiled . Anvoffice), or Epker Scott Ander- vice + Pres degit and successor, a the Sennte), ot Dr. Kari | g. assisigni for ; dort of soe ere) . y, Bagot and . wie "on (Cuny’s Thay Green, aol “stilt ansuime a substance | ot reality: Racomuniyn ‘td: fpost novels ot : : Cirry’s succes- Anderson, tr E.S:A., as he is. , has used this dirty little ‘compromise ‘the 6 ba way through “The Compaty” certain that what Mr. Ehrlichman to demonstrate is that while t Monck aot have played a- yes even rake 1 pots et al The paint, _ est. curiae out, js not: that. Curry snd ” Anderson wets jist. as bad _ as, a Seay ae fon the United: States /: riba to do feEby the Monckton, |. " ner ; sdepeadenda’ “fram . dhe Oval”. | thes eee nletnn at ae had ad Posen ¥ UAL IVIULILCALUGL is just a9 au 85 Wu sty ; d Anderson-—only dumber. And tunnier ' too, Whether we're witnessing Monckton slamming down the phone receiver after; =| a conversation with hig mother:.or.Monck-' | “to: eseta Be Reining + ef of staff, Fran t's: the? tare time:. Tone hoy oY ese those Httle things. Footnotes ta toy or Lars Haglund, ‘White House operative, operting up a box-of;cuff links-he specially made up for my visitora,. you. know: But you don't have to: Hotty. —they “© ase” worth less‘ ten dollapi, so ‘don’t have to dectate them"), only .of the author than you are, in case you. admirers, But let's face it: He has written _an-extremely entertaining book, and no one, not even the Federal . ee Sole 4h can VaNG ‘that away from: “Amr, oO Inflammatory Potbeiler It's a whole lot easier to distike Spiro T. Agnew’s novel, “The Canfield Decision,” © about # Vice President who tries to jump : on American exaspération with détente to. bounce his way to the Presidency. For one Mr. Agnew's potboiler is ‘based’ on hn nflammato premise that “* Jews exert an inftudice on American opins fon that is far hervite’ than their numbers would ‘indicate. “they are the strongest: ‘media—the . medie with worldwide impact They. control ; “gingle. influence’ in the big the financlal community, '"There- heavily affect, through reough prope ‘pouch fore, th ganda, the majority. of the * “they scream antisemitism whenever. anys. ‘one mentions this power, but it’s true.” - (Of coufse, it's an’ Iranian terrorist. who ords in the novel, so one: - utters these wi can't quite “scream. anti-Semitism" at-the - 1 the plot of “The Can: the terrorist out.) aetiatie ¢ point of of the dial ogue , author, even thoy ” field Decision” + Worse, at leaut ft deen as on "view, the at averdets ar o - -soVerexpiicit, ine anime oF overciichéd, ung the work left to, the: reader's imagination - ‘overlooked. In . where, most writers . trying te con perience the sesisation of sawing a way at ‘uneyen table legs. nntil there is n Jeft but slab, Mr.. Agnew appears. to have. gone about his carpentry by adding on to the legs untif whatever it was he wae ing to support hes disappeared from sight everything, that is, except his theory ; about overinfluential Jews: _ But ofe positive thing you’ can aay for | The Canfield Decision”; Despite all the’ s‘speculation to the cofitrary, Mr. Agnew... appedre: ‘to have written. it. all by hirneell. In fact;‘it.is an dhsult to. the writing ‘pro-. fession to suggést that anyone: was paid. get? help perpetrate this bilge. 8 Rind “his 7: the box empty—we heve to laugh at Mr. ue “Ebslichman’s wickedness: I'm. sorry, tog. -'fi no ‘more ari admiver. . _ Sy. b a. plausible story ox. MAY 23, 1978 racelved from Monckton (“I have these :