Agnew attended a black-tie stag dinner at the White House for Prince Philip. With remarks from the diplomatic Deans—Acheson and Rusk —the evening proceeded with a certain urbanity.

Who can imagine the nightmares of Spiro Agnew over the last quarter-century? All those hopes, all that community pride, all those people who believed in him, and he’d let them down. He knew it ...

There was a popular joke in the ’70s. “Did you know Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch?” Perhaps 50 years have killed the punch line. See, Vice President Agnew, who began his … ...

‘A Trump before Trump’: Drawing parallels between Nixon’s disgraced VP Spiro Agnew and our current president SNEED: In 1973, I was given the assignment of eavesdropping on Agnew’s dinner ...

Marge Anderson, a friend of Spiro Agnew recalled for The Desert Sun’s Bruce Fessier how people in the desert treated Agnew after his resignation of the vice-presidency in 1973. “He was totally ...

In 1973 he was the spitting image of Spiro Agnew. But the joke didn’t last long.

Judy Agnew, 91, the widow of former vice president Spiro T. Agnew, who resigned in 1973 after being charged with income-tax evasion, died June 20 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The cause of death was ...

RANDOLPH—Jim “Spiro” Agnew, 70, of rural Randolph died peacefully, surrounded by family on July 16, 2024, at The Meadows of Fall River after a long battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Spiro was ...

Witcover begins with an anecdote from early 1971 in which Nixon, through an aide, tells Agnew he wants him to fill in for him at the annual Gridiron Dinner.

Judy Agnew, who went to Washington after Richard M. Nixon plucked her husband, Spiro, from relative political obscurity to make him vice president and who later stood by him when he resigned in ...