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Spiro Agnew began his political career as the first president of the Loch Raven Elementary School PTA.
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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 '.
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* 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 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 political
The General Headquarters was created with Spiro Moisiu as the commander and Enver Hoxha as political commissary.
* Spiro Koleka ( 1908 – 2001 ), long-serving member of the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania, one of the few members of the Greek minority serving in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania political system.
Spiro and first
Spiro had a step-brother, Roy Pollard, from his mother's first marriage ( she was widowed at the time she met Spiro's father ).
Calhoun was the first vice president in U. S. history to resign from office, doing so on December 28, 1832 ( Spiro Agnew did so in 1973 ).
One claims that Spiro was the maiden name of the first postmistress.
Though Maryland traditionally votes Democratic and had not elected a Republican governor in almost 40 years, Ehrlich won the race ( 52 % of the vote to Townsend's 47 %), becoming only the sixth Republican governor in state history, and the first since Spiro T. Agnew was elected in 1967.
"; the mad, comic figure of Richard IV in the first series of The Black Adder ( 1983 ); and Spiro in the BBC adaptation of My Family and Other Animals ( 1987 ).
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.
In 1991, the first article about Benning's work, written by Ellen Spiro, appeared in the national gay magazine The Advocate.
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.
Governor Kathleen Kennedy in 2002, and became first Republican Governor of Maryland since Spiro T. Agnew, he was regarded by many as potential presidential candidate for 2008.
Prominent visitors included Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Prime Minister of independent Malaysia ; Spiro Agnew, the Vice President of the United States ; Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ; Denis Healey, British Defence Secretary ; and King Hussein of Jordan.
Spiro and president
* 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.
When Nixon took the Oval Office in 1969, Buchanan worked as a White House adviser and speechwriter for Nixon and vice president Spiro Agnew.
Upon reconsideration, the vote was tied at 49 – 49 and required the vote of vice president Spiro Agnew, who supported the amendment.
In 1973, during Albert's second term as Speaker and Nixon's second term as president, Vice President Spiro Agnew was investigated for tax evasion and money laundering for bribes he took while he was Governor of Maryland.
The Albanian World War II general Spiro Moisiu and his son Alfred Moisiu, Albanian president from 2002 to 2007, are relatives of Aleksandër Moisiu.
* Spiro Agnew, 39th vice president of the United States under Nixon
He was the only vice president to resign until Spiro Agnew did so, 141 years later.
Important historical members of the Maryland Republican Party have included former Governor and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, the second vice president ever to resign the office, and former Senator Charles Mathias.
Spiro Agnew was re-nominated for vice president with 1, 345 votes, against one vote for television journalist David Brinkley and two abstentions.
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