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...Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to income tax evasion...
...brushstroke by de Kooning. With women Sargent was in his element, and icons of late-Victorian and Edwardian femininity rise from his work with wonderful directness: those all-time-champion Jewish princesses the Wertheimer sisters, zaftig and bursting with life, or the paler and more shadowed beauty of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw...
Watergate was still dominating the headlines when, on Oct. 6, Egypt and Syria launched an attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holidays. Four days later, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Over the next 10 days, Middle East and Persian Gulf nations organized a total oil embargo against the U.S. because of its support for Israel. And on Oct. 20, one day before the embargo took full effect, came the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon ordered special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired, Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in protest, and an honest-to-God constitutional crisis was born...
What makes that 1973 convergence so remarkable is that it was not just a Harmonic Convergence but an Inter-Related Convergence as well. The firing of Cox made impeachment a real possibility, but so did the removal of Agnew, often seen as Nixon's best impeachment insurance. And so did the oil embargo: by delivering a hammerblow to the American economy in the form of higher energy prices, the embargo further undermined Nixon's popularity...
...second anti-war teach-in that he organized, several prominent Republicans who were opposed spoke at a hotel in Boston while former vice president Spiro Agnew was in the city...