Word: spiros
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October 10, 1973: Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President, pleading no contest to charges of tax evasion...
December 13, 1975: Harvard claims that Law School student Spiro M. Pavlovich used false transcripts to obtain admissions to the Law-Business program...
...vice presidency has come a long way, quickly. Just 30 years ago, Spiro Agnew said, "A little over a week ago, I took a rather unusual step for a vice president. I said something." Today, we can be more comfortable because Cheney is speaking...
...last years, living in a grand house outside Gstaad, he insisted on styling himself the "Comte de Rola"--a genealogical fiction. His father Erich Klossowski was both a painter and an art historian; his mother Elizabeth Spiro was a painter who liked to be known as Baladine and had a long, intense friendship with one of Germany's greatest modern poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, who became young Balthus' mentor. Thus from childhood Balthasar Klossowski, to give his actual name, was steeped in an artistic milieu, and he grew up with a considerable sense of himself as a prodigy. But young...
...Republican National Committee. But after the Electoral College votes, or at any time during a Bush Administration, Bush's choice to succeed Cheney would have to be approved by both houses of Congress, a process set out in the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. In 1973, when Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to step down in a kickback scandal, Richard Nixon named Gerald Ford to replace him, in part because Ford was House minority leader, which made quick approval in Congress more likely. By contrast, Ford's selection of Nelson Rockefeller, a congressional outsider, was held up for months...