Spiro Agnew

Also known as Spiro T. Agnew, Spiro Theodore Agnew

vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973

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Spiro Agnew served as Vice President of the United States under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. He is a significant historical figure whose tenure during this period coincided with major events in American politics and society.

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The Inaugural Book 1973 President Richard M. Nixon Vice President Spiro Agnew "The Spirit of '76"

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1918
Active to: 1996

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Listeners: 975
Total plays: 2,186

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The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,686x
FOUNDATION FOR A GENERAL STRAIN THEORY OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY*
· 1992 · cited 3,651x
The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,226x
An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
· 2018 · cited 3,060x
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,771x

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Quotes

“Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!”
“A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
“In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.”
“This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English—it is a problem for the Department of Justice.... Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.”
“Your highness is already familiar with the unrelenting Zionist efforts to destroy me.”
“Zionists in the United States knew that I would never agree to the continuance of the unfair and disastrous favoring of Israel and they had to get me out of office there so that I would not succeed Nixon.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Spiro Agnew.jpg
Number of children: 4

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Commons category: Spiro Agnew
date of birth: 1918-11-09
date of death: 1996-09-17
Commons gallery: Spiro Agnew
name in native language: Spiro Agnew
birth name: Spiro Theodore Agnew
National Governors Association biography URL: www.nga.org/governor/spiro-theodore-agnew

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Article

Spiro Theodore Agnew (/ˈspɪəroʊ ˈæɡnjuː/; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 3rd Executive of Baltimore County from 1962 to 1966 and the 55th Governor of Maryland from 1967 to 1969. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832.

Agnew was born in Baltimore to a Greek immigrant father and an American mother. He attended Johns Hopkins University and graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He was a campaign aide for U.S. Representative James Devereux in the 1950s, and was appointed to the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals in 1957. In 1962, he was elected Baltimore county executive. In 1966, Agnew was elected governor of Maryland, defeating his Democratic opponent George P. Mahoney and independent candidate Hyman A. Pressman.