Spiro T. Agnew served as the 39th vice president of the United States from Jan. 20, 1969 to Oct. 10, 1973, when he was forced to resign after pleading no contest to a felony charge of tax evasion.

In 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns in disgrace after pleading no contest to income tax evasion. In 1985, movie legend Orson Welles, whose innovative Citizen Kane of 1941 was regarded by ...

Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland, who was Richard Nixon’s first vice president, was also his attack dog, and he employed the great William Safire, more famously of the New York Times ...

In 1966, I stood outside my elementary school in Maryland, waving a sign for Spiro Agnew. He was running for governor against a segregationist who campaigned on the slogan, “Your Home Is Your Ca ...

Both Spiro Agnew and Richard Nixon took cash bribes while in the White House and before. Agnew’s dated back to shakedowns he did as Maryland governor, while Nixon helped Jimmy Hoffa get out of a ...

Most people around the Square had already been swallowing hard for eleven hours when word came up from Miami yesterday that Spiro T. Agnew was Nixon's running mate. That did it. Young and old were ...

Appointed Vice President by Richard M. Nixon after Spiro Agnew resigned due to scandal, Gerald R. Ford then became president upon Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Challenges: Gerald R. Ford’s Whip ...