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Although Nixon reluctantly kept Agnew on the ticket while winning a second term in 1972, their partnership was unraveling well before that.
In 1971, Philip Guston was so mad at Richard Nixon that he turned out a brilliant sequence of political cartoons.
In several conversations caught on the White House tapes, Nixon talked of the possibility of removing Agnew from the direct line of presidential succession by appointing him to the Supreme Court!
JD Vance’s transformation from a “never-Trumper” to his obedient attack-dog running mate mirrors the political path that Spiro Agnew trod more than a half-century ago.
Spiro Agnew settled corruption charges in part by resigning. Could a similar bargain spare Trump and the nation the pain of a trial?
A new exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Gallery features political cartoons by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Patrick Oliphant who has been called the most influential editorial cartoonist of his ...
In the span of only five years, Agnew's story ends tragically, post-vice presidency, as an ignominious member of society. Nixon was known as a great political mastermind who left nothing to chance.
As vice president, Agnew assumed the limelight with a series of highly charged political speeches in which he colorfully challenged many of the leading institutions of the day viewed by Nixon as ...
The Nixon-Agnew T.V. Committee paid for three campaign commercials for the Nixon-Agnew presidential campaigns 1968.
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