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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...
Obeying a court order to return kickback money he had accepted for lucrative state contracts while Governor of Maryland, former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, 64, paid up last week. The check was made out to the state for $268,482 (the $142,500 he pocketed plus interest). Said the ex-Veep, now a foreign trade consultant, from his luxurious desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif.: "This just doesn't seem to add up to the kind of justice the framers of the Constitution had in mind...
Though a dedicated Republican, McCall spoke against the party and its leadership. He was the first Republican leader to publicly tangle with Vice-President Spiro Agnew. At a 1970 governors' conference in Idaho. McCall received national attention when he called a presentation by Agnew a "rotten, bigoted little speech," and questioned the choice of Agnew as President Nixon's running-mate...