Word: veep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they dined on lobster salad, beef heart and French champagne at the opulent new Rio Palace Hotel. But as usual the boy from Hoboken did the gig his way. Flying down to Rio with a surprise fellow traveler, Spiro Agnew-"I'm here on business" muttered the former Veep-Sinatra helicoptered to the hotel, shouldered his way through adoring throngs, and thereafter ventured out of his $750-a-day suite only for rehearsals and performances. Sniffed his pressagent: "If he wanted to be treated like an animal, he could have gone to any California zoo rather than coming...
President Andrew Johnson, who had been Lincoln's Veep, is scurrilously rumored to have been privy to the conspiracy-and is facing impeachment over his "soft" policy toward the defeated South. Secretary Stanton is widely believed to have been implicated in the murder. So is General Ulysses S. Grant, by now a leading contender for the Republican nomination for the presidency. Politics aside, there are strong inducements for those involved to claim that the real Booth had been run to ground: not least, the $50,000 War Department reward for his capture. It is up to Cosgrove, largely...