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~26- _ In November or December 1968, after Mr. Agnew was elected % Vice President, but before his inauguration, Wolff came to Green with a jist that he had prepared of the contracts that the Green company had received from the State Roads Commission under the Agnew Administration. Wolff told Green that Governor Agnew had asked him to prepare the list, and Green concluded that the list had been requested and could possibly . be used as a means of assessing what he owed to Governor Agnew in return \ for those contracts. Wolff and Green discussed the contracts and fees and, in effect, bargained about the matter. Green argued that some of the contracts that appeared on the list had in fact been awarded to his company under the Tawes Administration and that the Agnew Administration was simply implementing a contract for which the selection had been made previously. Wolff, however, reminded him that the Agnew Administration could have cancelled at least some of the contracts, or could have awarded portions of the contracts to other firms. Subsequently, Green prepared ‘a revised list of his own and submitted it to Wolff. Sometime thereafter, but still before the inauguration, Green met with the Vice President-elect in his Baltimore Governor's office. He gave Mr. Agnew a payment during the meeting. Mr. Agnew began the’ conversation by making some reference to the list and indicated that the Green company had received a lot of work from the State Roads Commission. Mr. Agnew said that he was glad that things had worked out that way. He then reiterated that he had been unable to improve his financial situation during his two years as Governor and that although his salary as Vice " President would be higher than his salary as Governor, he expected that the social and other demands of the office would substantially increase his personal expenses. For these reasons, he said he hoped that Green would be able to continue the financial assistance that he had been providing