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Sep 18, 1996 · Sept. 18, 1996 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Spiro T. Agnew, who earned an enduring but unenviable niche in American history as the first vice president forced to resign in disgrace, died Tuesday ...
Apr 3, 2023 · Signs of Agnew's serious legal trouble emerged in August 1973 when the U.S. Attorney for Maryland informed Agnew that prosecutors were investigating the vice president for allegedly taking bribes ...
Nov 8, 2018 · Friday, Nov. 9th marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Spiro T. Agnew, whose meteoric rise in politics to the vice presidency of the United States was an achievement unmatched by any ...
Aug 8, 2018 · Shortly before noon on Aug. 8, Nixon made his decision, Harwood wrote. “He called Agnew at 12:25 p.m. and 10 minutes later announced his decision to the press.”. The next day, The Post’s ...
Jan 24, 2017 · He died recently, at age 79, on January 15, 2017, in Naples, Florida. Agnew faced with the inevitable (read serious prison time) entered into “a deal” to resign from his office on October 10 ...
Apr 25, 2018 · Fifty years later, we remember Spiro Agnew, if at all, as a bumbling vice-president who later pleaded no contest to tax evasion, resigned in disgrace and ended his career funnelling military ...
May 17, 2018 · Spiro Agnew. Born: November 9, 1918 Baltimore, Maryland Died: September 17, 1996 Ocean City, Maryland American vice president and governor. Between the time of his nomination as Richard Nixon's running mate in August 1968 and his resignation in October 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew was a leading spokesman for "The Silent Majority," a term used by Nixon to describe conservative, middle-class ...
