Agnew was a physically imposing yet politically unremarkable figure when selected out of obscurity to be Nixon’s running mate in 1968.

After it was learned that Agnew was a target, Nixon and his new chief of staff, Alexander Haig, discussed plans in the Oval Office to obstruct the investigation.

In many respects, Agnew was Donald Trump before Donald Trump. He was a polarizing political figure, beloved by conservatives, hated and mocked by liberals, yet favored as the likely Republican nominee ...

When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.

It is a story with historical resonance. President Nixon plucked Agnew from obscurity and put him on the national ticket in 1968. At the time, Agnew was a political unknown. He had served as ...

Well, this is wild: In the course of researching a Nov. 13 episode of the Slow Burn–style podcast Bag Man, which is about corrupt Nixon administration Vice President Spiro Agnew, MSNBC host ...

Richard M. Nixon waves to Republican National Convention delegates with running mate Spiro T. Agnew after accepting the party’s nomination for president in Miami on Aug. 8, 1968.

Jeffrey Frank on the parallels between the case of Richard Nixon’s Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, and the current circumstances facing the Trump Administration.

Choosing a running mate used to be more about campaigning than governing. But after Richard Nixon’s ruinous relationship with Spiro Agnew, the job has changed. Introducing the executive vice ...

And unlike Agnew, Volpe’s bipartisan popularity in Congress would have made him an acceptable potential president and provided a mind-focusing incentive for Nixon to do the right thing.

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 ...