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Spiro and Agnew
image: Spiro Agnew Congratulates Launch Control After Launch of Apollo 17-GPN-2002-000058. jpg | Vice President Spiro Agnew congratulates launch control after the launch
Vice President Spiro Agnew urged Capp to run in the Democratic Party Massachusetts primary in 1970 against Ted Kennedy, but Capp ultimately declined.
* During the war between the United States and North Vietnam, Vice President Spiro Agnew accused newspapers of anti-American bias, and in a famous speech delivered in San Diego in 1970, called anti-war protesters " the nattering nabobs of negativism.
* 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1996 )
* 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.
Accordingly, the resignations of President Nixon and of Vice-President Spiro Agnew, domestic issues, were formalized in instruments delivered to the Secretary of State.
Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.
Richard Nixon ( 36th ), Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew incoming Vice President ( 39th ), and the outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( 38th ), January 20, 1969
No Vice President has ever been impeached, least of all convicted ; in 1973, Spiro Agnew came the closest.
The first such instance occurred in 1973 following the resignation of Spiro Agnew as Richard Nixon's Vice President.
* November 9 – Spiro Agnew, American Vice President ( d. 1996 )
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces the President's critics as ' an effete corps of impudent snobs ' and ' nattering nabobs of negativism '.
Spiro Agnew
* September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1918 )
* August 5 – August 8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U. S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.
In 1969 President Richard Nixon formed the Space Task Group, chaired by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996 ) was the 39th Vice President of the United States ( 1969 – 1973 ), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 – 1969 ).
Spiro Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
Spiro Agnew began his political career as the first president of the Loch Raven Elementary School PTA.
Spiro Agnew is sworn in as vice-president in 1969.
From left to right: Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew ( with hand raised ), Hubert Humphrey.
Although considered something of a political joke at first — one Democratic television commercial featured hearty laughter as the camera panned to a TV with the words " Vice President Spiro Agnew?

Spiro and American
* 1977 – Jordana Spiro, American actor
Vice President Spiro Agnew, used Gresham's law in describing American news media, stating that " Bad news drives out good news ," although his argument was closer to that of a race to the bottom for higher ratings rather than over and undervaluing certain kinds of news.
He is the longest serving Governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek American Governor in U. S. history, after Spiro Agnew.
In the months leading up to Nixon's 1969 speech, his vice-president Spiro T. Agnew said on May 9, " It is time for America's silent majority to stand up for its rights, and let us remember the American majority includes every minority.
In a way, this is a return to medieval styles: as noted in Spiro Kostof's seminal history of urban design, The City Shaped, there is a strong resemblance between the street arrangements of modern American suburbs and those of medieval Arab and Moorish cities.
Antlers and the rest of the Kiamichi River valley fell within the realm of the American Indian culture based at Spiro Mounds.
* In Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Artemis requests Holly's help to heal Domovoi Butler and retrieve his C Cube from American businessman Jon Spiro.
* American exceptionalism, referred to as " New Sovereigntism " by Peter J. Spiro in a 2000 essay in the journal Foreign Affairs.
The production team included editor Spiro " Spike " Lampros, winner of a 2009 Emmy Award as editor of " Project Runway "; Director of Photography Mark Petersson, who shot Barbara Kopple's Academy Award-winning " American Dreams "; and Eddie Marritz, who shot the Academy Award-winning " Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.
The Vice President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, named us personally as a subversive to American youth, but at exactly the same time Lawrence Welk performed the crazy thing and introduced it as a gospel song.

Spiro and Vice
Vice President Spiro Agnew and former President Lyndon B. Johnson view the liftoff of Apollo 11 from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center
On October 10, 1973, Spiro Agnew became the second Vice President to resign the office.
# redirect Spiro Agnew # Vice Presidency
Implementation of the law almost became necessary in 1973, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Spiro and who
Spiro T. Agnew, who was the Governor of Maryland from 1967 – 1969, later served as the Vice-President of the United States for a time under President Richard M. Nixon, and Agnew is, thus far, the highest-ranking Marylander in the history of the United States.
* Barbara Sharma as the dancing meter-maid who ticketed anything from trees to baby carriages, and often praised vice president Spiro Agnew, calling him ' Pres-ee-dent Agnew.
Three researchers who wrote about psychological life on kibbutzim were Melford E. Spiro ( 1958 ), Bruno Bettelheim ( 1969 ) and Michael Baizerman ( 1963 ).
Upon reconsideration, the vote was tied at 49 – 49 and required the vote of vice president Spiro Agnew, who supported the amendment.
They are fiercely protected by their taxi-driver friend Spiro ( Spiros " Americano " Halikiopoulos ) and mentored by the polymath Dr. Theodore Stephanides who provides Gerald with his education in natural history.
" CBS was denounced by Vice President Spiro Agnew, who accused the network of disseminating " self-serving propaganda.
It can also be used metaphorically for people who have a grandiose sense of their own importance, as in the famous dismissal of the news media as " nattering nabobs of negativism " in a speech that was delivered by Spiro Agnew and written by William Safire.
These natives were descendants of Caddoans who built the Spiro Mounds at Spiro, Oklahoma.
Sources within the administration of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who was formerly governor of Maryland, were also commenting Morton would make a strong candidate and would likely run.
His father, Erich Klossowski, a noted art historian who wrote a monograph on Daumier, and his mother Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro ( known as the painter Baladine Klossowska ) were part of the cultural elite in Paris.
After his death, commentators remarked that Lee was an able governor, but a modest politician who was not comfortable working in crowds and did not adequately distance himself from the corruption of Mandel and Mandel's predecessor, Spiro Agnew.
In Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, he is initially working for the Antonelli family as a " monkey " ( which means someone who is good at breaking in to places ) under the alias Mo Digence, but foils a plot to kidnap Artemis, and subsequently assists him in breaking into the Spiro Needle to steal back the C Cube.
Actors that have performed at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre include: Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Neagle, Robert Helpmann, Vivian Leigh, Eileen Atkins, Leslie French, Bill Kenwright, Felicity Kendal, Anthony Andrews, Wayne Sleep, Ricky Tomlinson, Jeremy Irons, Zoë Wanamaker, Judi Dench, Celia Imrie, Lesley Garrett, Douglas Hodge, Richard E Grant, Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Christopher Biggins, Jenny Galloway, Joanna Riding, Samantha Spiro, Jenna Russell, Liz Robertson, Toyah Willcox, Bernard Bresslaw ( who died in his dressing room at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, while performing the part of Grumio in the 1993 production of The Taming of the Shrew ), Nigel Planer, Nigel Harman, Su Pollard, Milton Jones, John Malkovich, Scarlett Strallen, Sheridan Smith, Summer Strallen, Topol, Millicent Martin, Janie Dee, Clive Rowe, Martha Wainwright, Hannah Waddingham and Helen Dallimore.
Then, Spiro the Clairvoyant, a man who smells people like a psychic bloodhound, starts to sniff Kleinman.
They need a stooge and choose Spiro Tozaj / Michele Tallarico ( Carmelo Di Mazzarelli ), an old man in a prison, who turns out to be an Italian veteran from World War II.
Gino and Spiro follow a group of Albanians who are headed for Italy in search for a better life, first by truck and later by ship.
The song is an ironic tribute to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, who Ochs wryly suggests are more laughable than Laurel and Hardy.
Two former County Executives have achieved prominence since leaving office: Spiro T. Agnew, who went on to become Governor of Maryland and the Vice President of the United States under Richard Nixon, resigning in disgrace due to scandal ; and Dutch Ruppersberger, who currently represents the 2nd Congressional District of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives.
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford proposed New York City Mayor John Lindsay for Vice President but Nixon turned to another moderate, Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew, who placed Nixon's name in nomination at the convention.
Huey Walker, a hippie and a former New Left radical ( in the vein of Abbie Hoffman ) who has been on the run from the law for 20 years for something he did not do, disconnecting Spiro Agnew's train car in Spokane, Washington.

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