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Spiro Theodore Agnew (/ˈspɪroʊ ˈæɡnuː/; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was an American politician who served as the 39th Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973, serving under President Richard Nixon.Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and University of Baltimore School of Law. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1941, serving as an officer during World War II, and was recalled for service during the Korean War in 1950. Agnew worked as an aide for U.S. Representative James Devereux before he was appointed to the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals in 1957. He lost election for the Baltimore City Circuit Court in 1960, but was later elected Baltimore County Executive in 1962. In 1966, Agnew was elected the 55th Governor of Maryland, defeating his perennial (former gad-fly) Democratic opponent George P. Mahoney. He was the first Greek American to hold the position, serving between 1967 and 1969.At the 1968 Republican National Convention, former County Executive now Governor of Maryland (for only a year and a half), Spiro T. Agnew who had earlier been asked to place Richard Nixon's name in nomination of the presidency (for the second time since 1960), was selected in private in the upstairs hotel rooms of Miami by Nixon and his campaign staff, then presented to the convention delegates for nomination for Vice President; he ran alongside the party's presidential nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon in the continuing Presidential Election of 1968. Nixon and Agnew defeated the incumbent 38th Vice President, Hubert Humphrey (formerly long-time U. S. Senator from Minnesota) and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, in the 1968 presidential election. In 1972, Nixon and Agnew were reelected for a second term, defeating Senator George McGovern and Ambassador Sargent Shriver.In 1973, Agnew was investigated by the United States Attorney's office for the District of Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy. He was charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000 while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, Governor of Maryland, and later Vice President. On October 10 that same year, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President. Nixon later replaced Agnew by appointing House Minority Leader Gerald Ford to the office of Vice President.Agnew was the second Vice President in United States history to resign, the other being John C. Calhoun, and the only one to do so because of criminal charges. Nearly ten years after leaving office, Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations. Critics have cited him as being one of the worst Vice Presidents in American history. He is the only Greek-American Vice President, making
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| 1 | [after a bust of him was unveiled in 1995 as part of the U.S. Senate's collection of vice presidential busts in the Capitol] I'm not blind and deaf to the critics that feel this is a ceremony that should not take place. This ceremony has less to do with Spiro Agnew than the office I held, which was conferred upon me when the American people elected and re-elected me Vice President of the United States. |
| 2 | [September 11, 1970] In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club--the "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history." |
| 3 | [about inner-city slums] I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all. |
| 4 | I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort. |
| 5 | [speech at West Point, 1970] Some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedom which most of those misfits abuse. |
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| 1 | Cousin of Stanley Fields. |
| 2 | Close friends with the last man to walk on the moon, astronaut Eugene Cernan. |
| 3 | Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 2-4. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| 4 | He became (1967) governor of Maryland, where he won passage of an open housing law and expanded the state's antipoverty programs. |
| 5 | Agnew was forced to resign on Oct. 10, 1973, after a US Justice Department investigation uncovered evidence of corruption during his years in Maryland politics; he was also suspected of having continued to accept bribes while Vice President. He pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion, was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $10,000 and was disbarred (1974) in Maryland. |
| 6 | Admitted to the bar in 1949, he entered politics as a Republican and was elected (1961) chief executive of Baltimore County. |
| 7 | His father was a Greek immigrant whose family surname originally was Anagnostopoulos. His mother was from a family that had lived in the United States since the 1600s, and had English ancestry. |
| 8 | Agnew was also known for his eloquent use of the English lanquage. |
| 9 | Was forced to resign as Vice President when it was discovered, while as Governor of Maryland, he had participated in a money-laundering scheme. He pleaded "nolo contendere" in court and promptly resigned the V.P. job. |
| 10 | Buried at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium, Maryland. |
| 11 | U.S. Vice President under President Richard Nixon (1969-73). |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomorrow Coast to Coast | 1977 | TV Series | Himself |
| Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series | Himself |
| America Revisited | 1971 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
| Spiro Agnew's Asian Trip | 1970 | Himself | |
| The David Frost Show | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 1970 | TV Series | Himself / Introduction |
| The Kraft Music Hall | 1970 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Archive Footage
Known for movies
America Revisited (1971)
as Himself
Spiro Agnew's Asian Trip (1970)
as Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1969)
as Himself - Guest
The David Frost Show (1970)
as Himself
