Jules Witcover has done it again. The veteran political reporter and columnist has produced insightful books on politics and history with metronomic regularity for more than three decades — he’s ...

If disgraced Richard Nixon Vice President Spiro Agnew was going to be featured prominently in the lead segment of a primetime cable news show in 2019, it would undoubtedly be Rachel Maddow‘s. And ...

On this day in 1973, the Vice-President of the United States resigned from office after pleading no contest to accepting bribes. Pretty big deal, right? But Spiro Agnew has been largely lost to ...

The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew Veteran Washington reporter Jules Witcover's "Very Strange Bedfellows," about the promising and ultimately ignominious partnership of ...

The news has been full of concerns about the fate of our republic following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. There have been questions about the politicization of criminal laws and the ...

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When Richard Nixon lifted the Governor of Maryland from a position of relative obscurity to the second spot on the Republican Party’s tick et last month, Spiro Theodore Agnew reacted with becoming ...

Anyone who has read much history probably knows that President Richard Nixon once serenaded ex-President Harry Truman during a White House visit by playing "Missouri Waltz" on the piano in his honor ...

The White House protests, perhaps too much, that Spiro Agnew is not “on a leash.” that he does not have to clear his speeches with headquarters. If that accurately reflects the Agnew-Nixon ...

(TIME, August 16, 1968) -- As they start on the road to November, the Republicans are united. Now what will they do with the unity? Richard Nixon is clearly in tune with his party. Will he be in tune ...