And what a revealing portrait of Nixon, his top aides, and Agnew emerges from those tapes — which were recorded from February 1971 to July 1973 before being discontinued after the Senate ...

Mr. Nixon told him on Sept. 19, 1971, his chief of staff wrote, that “it would be good to indicate his confidence in Agnew and say that if Agnew so desires, he intends to keep him on the ticket.

It was this new executive vice presidency that Agnew was supposed to fill. But while Nixon was happy with the electoral work Agnew did—1968 was a squeaker of a race, and Nixon believed Agnew had ...

At the Republican Convention that summer, when it came time for him to pick a Vice President, he surprised everyone by coming up with Spiro Agnew. In Nixon's calculus, Agnew was a safe-bet border ...

An up-front disclaimer: I was a speech writer for President Richard M. Nixon and, in the 1972 campaign, for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. I believe that on balance their useful contributions to ...

Agnew was a physically imposing yet politically unremarkable figure when selected out of obscurity to be Nixon’s running mate in 1968. Agnew had worked his way up the political ladder, starting ...