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Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 3rd executive of Baltimore County from 1962 to 1966 and the 55th governor of Maryland from 1967 to 1969. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832.
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politics · Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973 · politician · lawyer · governor · jurist · vice president · also Spiro Agnew, Spiro T. Agnew, Spiro Theodore Agnew, Agnew
Born 9 November 1918 · Died 17 September 1996 · Q203433
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2026· 5 entries
“continue my effort to inform the American people of their (i.e., Zionists”
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“Forgotten Man of American politics”
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“for too long the South has been the punching bag for those who characterize themselves as liberal intellectuals ... their course is a course that will ultimately weaken and erode the very fiber of America.”
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“a deep sense of the improbability of this moment”
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2023· 1 entry
The Washington Post: There is a precedent for Trump’s indictment: Spiro Agnew
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2020· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Watch, Spiro Agnew, 1970
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2018· 1 entry
Yahoo: Spiro Agnew Lawyer: Everyone Has the Right to Criticize the President
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1996· 4 entries
Died 1996-09-17.
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Agnew collapsed at his summer home in Ocean City, Maryland
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“Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!”
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“In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.”
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1994· 1 entry
His daughters invited Agnew to attend the funeral at Yorba Linda, California
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1989· 1 entry
Agnew applied unsuccessfully for this sum to be treated as tax-deductible
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1987· 1 entry
When as the plaintiff in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, he revealed information about his then-recent business activities through his company, Pathlite, Inc
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1980· 3 entries
Agnew wrote to Fahd bin Abdulaziz, at the time Crown Prince and de facto Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, claiming that he had been bled dry by attacks on him by Zionists, whom he blamed for forcing him out of office
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Advised young people not to go into politics because too much was expected of those in high public office
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Agnew published a memoir, Go Quietly
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1977· 1 entry
Agnew was wealthy enough to move to a new home at The Springs Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California, and shortly afterwards to repay the Sinatra loan
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1976· 2 entries
Agnew announced that he was establishing a charitable foundation "Education for Democracy", but nothing more was heard of this after B'nai B'rith accused it of being a front for Agnew's anti-Israeli views
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Published a novel, The Canfield Decision, about an American vice president's troubled relationship with his president
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1974· 2 entries
Career landmark: disbarment.
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The Maryland Court of Appeals disbarred him, calling him "morally obtuse"
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1973· 4 entries
Agnew appeared before the federal court in Baltimore, and pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to one felony charge, tax evasion, for the year 1967
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“I am proud to say that I grew up in the light of my father. My beliefs are his.”
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Agnew was investigated by the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland on suspicion of criminal conspiracy, bribery, extortion, and tax fraud
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Continued to also identify as "an Episcopalian
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1972· 2 entries
And that Agnew's rhetoric "could have served as the blueprint for the culture wars of the next twenty-to-thirty years, including the claim that Democrats were soft on crime, unpatriotic, and favored flag burning rather t
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Through 1971, it was uncertain if Agnew would be retained on the ticket as Nixon sought a second term in 1972
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1970· 1 entry
“Some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedoms which those misfits abuse.”
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1969· 5 entries
Calling on "the great silent majority of my fellow Americans" to support the administration's policy in Vietnam
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The day before the anti-war Moratorium, North Vietnamese premier Pham Van Dong released a letter supporting demonstrations in the United States
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That "we have a new breed of self-appointed vigilantes arising—the counterdemonstrators—taking the law into their own hands because officials fail to call law enforcement authorities
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After his vice presidential inauguration, Baltimore's Greek community endowed a scholarship in Theodore Agnew's name, Spiro Agnew told the gathering: "I am proud to say that I grew up in the light of my father
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Career landmark: Vice President of the United States (1969–1973).
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1968· 5 entries
There was widespread rioting and disorder across the US
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Rockefeller shocked his supporters with an apparently unequivocal withdrawal from the race, Agnew was dismayed and humiliated; despite his very public role in the Rockefeller campaign, he had received no advance warning
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With that year's elections looming, he became chairman of the "Rockefeller for President" citizens' committee
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The Nixon–Agnew ticket faced two principal opponents
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And 1970, and wanted to be perceived as conciliatory
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1967· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of Maryland (1967–1969).
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1966· 4 entries
Sought the Republican nomination for governor, and with the backing of party leaders won the April primary by a wide margin
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Agnew was elected governor of Maryland, defeating his Democratic opponent George P
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As his four-year term as executive neared its end, Agnew knew that his chances of re-election were slim, given that the county's Democrats had healed their rift
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But had castigated him as unfit for the vice presidency two years later
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1964· 1 entry
At the height of Johnsonian liberalism, came too early, but by the time of Agnew's election, liberalism was on the wane, and as Agnew moved to the right after 1968, the country moved with him
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1962· 3 entries
Were boosted by a feud in the Democratic ranks, as the retired former county executive, Michael Birmingham, fell out with his successor and defeated him in the Democratic primary
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Was elected Baltimore county executive
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Career landmark: Baltimore County Executive (1962–1966).
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1956· 1 entry
When he sought to be a Republican candidate for Baltimore County Council
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1955· 1 entry
Barrett was appointed a judge in Towson, the county seat of Baltimore County
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1952· 2 entries
And resumed his legal practice, specializing in labor law
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And 1956, was determined to give Agnew a much freer rein and to make it clear his running mate had his support
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1951· 1 entry
By a recall to the Army after the outbreak of the Korean War
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1947· 2 entries
Agnew registered as a Republican, though he did not immediately become involved in politics
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Agnew graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and passed the bar examination in Maryland
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1939· 1 entry
Decided that his future lay in law rather than chemistry, left Johns Hopkins and began night classes at the University of Baltimore School of Law
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1931· 1 entry
The family's savings were wiped out when a local bank failed, forcing them to sell the house and move to a small apartment
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1918· 2 entries
Born 1918-11-09.
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Spiro Agnew was born 11 months later, on November 9, 1918.
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1917· 1 entry
And Spiro's birth the following year, the new family settled in a small apartment at 226 West Madison Street, near downtown Baltimore
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1908· 1 entry
A passionate self-educator, Agnew maintained a lifelong interest in philosophy; one family member recalled that "if he wasn't reading something to improve his mind, he wouldn't read." Around 1908, he moved to Baltimore, where he purchased a restaurant.
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1897· 1 entry
(some accounts say 1902) and settled in Schenectady, New York, where he changed his name to Theodore Agnew and opened a diner
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1883· 1 entry
Was the youngest in a family of 10 children
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1877· 1 entry
Spiro Agnew's father was born Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos in about 1877, in the Greek town of Gargalianoi, Messenia.
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