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Even David. Agnew's best chances for renomination remain with his supporters in the Republican right wing. Agnew, insists Barry Goldwater, has a larger personal following in the G.O.P. than Nixon himself; White House aides do not disagree. Whether or not Nixon would take the painful step of admitting that his original choice for Vice President was wrong—which would force him to face recrimination from the right—will probably not be known until next summer, perhaps after the Democrats have nominated his opponent. Says a White House aide: "What he'll do is sit down with a batch of polls that tell him just where he stands. If he thinks it's going to be tight and that Agnew might sink him, that's the end of Agnew. Hell, he'd dump David Eisenhower under those circumstances."