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...Fall of Spiro Agnew...
After the long weeks of buildup, of insisting upon his innocence, of accusing Government officials of plotting his downfall, of vowing that he would fight to the end, the denouement of the Spiro Agnew debacle came with stunning swiftness. His hands trembling slightly and his Palm Springs tan bleached white with tension, Agnew walked into a Baltimore courtroom last week and admitted that he had falsified his income tax in 1967. When he emerged half an hour later, Agnew had been transformed from Vice President of the United States into a convicted felon...
Satire's delivery agent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, a nay boob. The souffles later collapsed in acrimony...
...Spiro Agnew, the nation's 39th Vice President, pleaded no contest in 1973 to charges of evading $13,551 in taxes due on $29,500 that he received from influence-seekers while Governor of Maryland. Agnew paid $10,000 in fines and resigned, the only U.S. Vice President ever to do so while under criminal investigation...
Consternation and even outrage from his new colleagues greeted William Safire when he joined the New York Times as a columnist in 1973. Safire was triply suspect: he had come directly from White House speechwriting for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, for whom he had coined press-baiting phrases like "nattering nabobs of negativism"; he was an aggressively conservative Republican at the generally liberal Times; and he was a writer scarcely versed in journalism who for nearly two decades had been pursuing careers in television production and public relations. Recalls Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "Almost everybody on the paper...