Four More Years
1972
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8 hours ago · Left: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, second from left, shares a laugh with Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, left, Thomas P. Stafford, and John W. Young the day before launch. Middle: Stafford pats a giant stuffed Snoopy as he and Young and Cernan leave crew quarters for the trip to the launch pad.
1 day ago · Left: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, second from left, shares a laugh with Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, left, Thomas P. Stafford, and John W. Young the day before launch. Middle: Stafford pats a giant stuffed Snoopy as he and Young and Cernan leave crew quarters for the trip to the launch pad.
1 day ago · Left: Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, second from left, shares a laugh with Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, left, Thomas P. Stafford, and John W. Young the day before launch. Middle: Stafford pats a giant stuffed Snoopy as he and Young and Cernan leave crew quarters for the trip to the launch pad.
4 days ago · I am a Gen X-er. I was born in 1973. At the time, Richard Nixon was still president, but the Watergate scandal had just come to light, and it would only be 16 months before he resigned in shame, with Gerald Ford becoming president (Nixon’s VP, Spiro Agnew, had resigned 10 months before over accusations of corruption while he was governor of Maryland, and had not been involved in Watergate).
4 days ago · During mid-1968, while on assignment following vice presidential candidate Spiro Agnew’s 1968 campaign, Oishi became the center of national attention after Agnew called Oishi a racial epithet. Like the incarceration in earlier life, the comment shook Gene as a reminder of his racial difference from white Americans.
4 days ago · President Harry S Truman famously said, “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for ten or fifteen years.” Although Truman and Richard M. Nixon became well-nigh mortal enemies during the post-war period, they ended their relationship with respect. Both shared simple farmland backgrounds. Truman was born in a small frame house. Nixon was born in the house his father built from a ...
