Agnew ran for the position of Governor of Maryland in 1966.

M-50 then ran concurrently with US 16 into Grand Rapids where it turned to the west and traveled through Allendale before terminating at a junction with US 31 in Agnew.

* 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.

Indeed, for Vice President Agnew it has become a code-word describing the activities of muggers, arsonists, draft evaders, campaign hecklers, campus militants, anti-war demonstrators, juvenile delinquents and political assassins.

Before leaving for Europe, Agnew worked at the Maryland Casualty Company where he met Elinor Judefind, known as Judy.

He also inspired a fashion craze when one entrepreneur introduced Spiro Agnew watches ( a take off on the popular Mickey Mouse watch ); conservatives wore them to show their support for Agnew, while many liberals wore them to signify their contempt.

Agnew was known for his scathing criticisms of political opponents, especially journalists and anti-war activists.

Agnew toned down his rhetoric and dropped most of the alliterations after the 1972 election, with a view to running for president himself in 1976.

Nixon would have liked to replace Agnew on the Republican ticket in 1972 with John Connally, his chosen successor for ' 76, but he realized that Agnew's large conservative base of supporters would be in an uproar, so he reluctantly kept him as his running mate.

Invitations for Agnew to give speeches across the country flooded into his office, and he became a top fundraiser for the Republican Party.

In April 1973, when revelations about Watergate began to surface, Agnew was the choice of 35 percent of Republican voters to be the next Republican nominee for President, while then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was second on the Gallup Poll.

After two appeals by Agnew, he finally resigned himself to the matter and a check for $ 268, 482 was turned over to Maryland State Treasurer William S. James in early 1983.

Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.

* In the United States, the official portraits of disgraced Maryland governors Spiro Agnew and Marvin Mandel were absent from the Maryland State House Governor ’ s Reception Room for periods of time.

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.

" Vice President Spiro Agnew blamed Spock for permissiveness.

In the same year Morgan Stanley merged with Shuman, Agnew & Co. Morgan Stanley served as lead underwriter for the IPO of Apple Computer, Inc. on December 12, 1980.

David Agnew is the credited writer of The Invasion of Time, and the use of the Alan Smithee name for The Elusive David Agnew is a joke ; " David Agnew " is a pseudonym, and The Elusive David Agnew is a mockumentary.

In line with what would later be called Nixon's " Southern Strategy ", Agnew was selected as a candidate because he was sufficiently from the South to attract Southern moderate voters, yet was not identified with the Deep South, which might have alienated Northern centrists come election time.

During the ensuing general election campaign against Vice President Hubert Humphrey — which took place against a backdrop of urban riots and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, culminating in the violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago — Agnew repeatedly hammered the Democrats on the issue of " law and order ".

Agnew went from his first election as County Executive to Vice President in six years — one of the fastest rises in US political history, comparable with that of Nixon, who became Vice President after four years in the House of Representatives and two years in the Senate.

When John Ehrlichman, the President's counsel and assistant, asked Nixon why he kept Agnew on the ticket in the 1972 election, Nixon replied that " No assassin in his right mind would kill me " because they would get Agnew ( as President ).

The press discussed Brooke as a possible replacement for Spiro Agnew as Nixon's running mate in the 1972 presidential election.

The Humphrey-Muskie campaign lost the election to Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.

During the 1968 presidential election, Finch was Nixon's first choice as his Vice Presidential running mate, but Finch declined and Nixon then chose Governor of Maryland Spiro Agnew.

They include: " In Florida ", about the 2000 election ; " Without DeLay ", a song about the former congressman ; " Bobbitt ", about John and Lorena Bobbitt ; " Little Bitty Gun ", which lampoons Nancy Reagan ; " I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler ", about the federal loan guarantee to Chrysler in 1979 ( which was rewritten in 2008 as " I Am Changing My Name to Fannie Mae " about the 700 billion dollar " bailout of the U. S. financial system "); " The Ballad of Spiro Agnew ", and " Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation " ( which became " George W. Told the Nation " in 2007 ).

Kieran Doherty and Paddy Agnew won seats in Cavan – Monaghan and Louth respectively, while both Joe McDonnell and Martin Hurson narrowly missed election in Sligo – Leitrim and Longford-Westmeath.

President Johnson with his wife First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, and then-Republican Party ( United States ) | Republican United States presidential election, 1968 | 1968 presidential candidate s future President Richard Nixon and future Vice President of the United States | Vice President Spiro Agnew at the ranch in August 1968.

During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy.

Spiro Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Agnew attended Forest Park Senior High School in Baltimore, before enrolling at Johns Hopkins University in 1937.

Upon his return from the war, Agnew transferred to the evening program at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

The following year, the new Democratic Baltimore County Executive, Christian H. Kahl, dropped him from the Zoning Board, with Agnew loudly protesting, thereby gaining name recognition.

Agnew is buried at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, a cemetery in Timonium, Maryland, in Baltimore County in the Garden of the Last Supper section of the cemetery, north of Padonia Road, and to the west side of the main entrance to the cemetery property.

Its greatest accomplishment came on September 8, 1963, when Baltimore County Executive Spiro Agnew and other officials dedicated the new Perry Hall library on Belair Road.

Richardson denied then and later taking any extraordinary steps in the investigation of Agnew, instead leaving the task up to the U. S. Attorney in Baltimore.

Agnew died unexpectedly on September 17, 1996, aged 77 at Atlantic General Hospital, in Berlin, Maryland, in Worcester County ( near his Ocean City home ), only a few hours after being hospitalized and diagnosed with an advanced, yet to that point undetected, form of leukemia.

The Allmusic review by Jack Rabid awards the album 4. 5 stars and states: " The debut from these five Orange County kids established the mid-tempo, punk-pop ' Southern Cal sound ,' led by the long, great, pummeling, Johnny Thunders-derived solos of the two Agnew brothers, Rikk and Frank.

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.

County bowlers such as Jonathan Agnew spoke of being " Nedded " when he performed well against them.

Agnew, Michigan is a tiny unincorporated hamlet located at at the intersection of US 31 and M-45 in Grand Haven Charter Township of Ottawa County in the U. S. state of Michigan.