Word: spiros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spiro Agnew so dramatically and abruptly decided to quit? "Because everything he tried flopped," one high-ranking Justice official declares flatly. Indeed, Agnew had tried a lot of things that had fizzled or seemed about to. He had asked the House of Representatives to investigate the charges against him, only to have Speaker Carl Albert send him back to the courts for justice. He had tried to kill the grand jury investigation into his misdeeds by arguing that a sitting Vice President could not be indicted for a crime, and also by claiming that Justice Department leaks had prejudiced...
...next day, Spiro's longest day, included a luncheon meeting of New York builders. Even on the brink of ruin, Agnew could not resist opening with the bitter jest that he had considered holding a "provocative discussion on the relationship of architects and engineers to the political fund-raising process." Later in the afternoon Spiro Agnew met as Vice President with President Nixon for the last time. For 40 minutes, the two men were alone in the Oval Office, sitting in chairs beside the fireplace beneath a painting of George Washington. When they were done talking about the bargain...
...Baltimore courtroom, meanwhile, Judge Hoffman, Spiro Agnew, now a simple citizen whose appearance before the bar of justice carried no grave constitutional portents or precedents, and the Attorney General were enacting the script that they had so carefully crafted. The Government said that Agnew had "willfully and knowingly" evaded $9,551.47 in federal taxes on $29,500 in undeclared income. Agnew did not contest the charge, pleading nolo contendere, which Judge Hoffman took pains to point out was equivalent to a guilty plea...
With that, Hoffman intoned: ";It is the judgment of this court that imposition of any sentence be suspended for a period of three years, conditioned that you, Spiro T. Agnew, at all times will be of uniform good behavior, that you will not violate the laws of the United States or of any state; that, as a further condition of this probation, you are to pay a fine in the sum of $10,000 within 30 days...
Thus, with fine irony, Spiro Agnew's immediate and future need is likely to be cash. With his conviction for a felony, he is likely to be disbarred. Nor can he count on the "defense fund" he was raising to carry on the fight. The donors have been invited to ask for refunds...