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 '.

* 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?