Vice President Spiro Agnew - Address On Vietnam War

Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 -- September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States (and the first Greek American to serve in that capacity) serving under President Richard M. Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland. He is noted for his quick rise in politics - going in six years from County Executive to Vice President of the United States.

During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000, while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States. On October 10, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President.

Agnew was the first Vice President in U.S. history to resign because of criminal charges. Ten years after leaving office, in January 1983, Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations

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[Gokturk13]

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[zzahier]

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[PawtucketPatriot66]

Hippies are trash and leeches. They don't work, they don't bath, the take drugs and expect free handouts from people.

Agnew may have been crooked as Governor of MD, but he was dead on balls accurate when speaking about the hippies, yippies and leftists in the media.

[2deadlyman]

cobra you are an idiot who conveniently forgets to mention Johnson and Mcnamarra. you need to finish high school.

[SuperMingeBag]

This speech or part of it is in 3 songs. 

Eminem - Yellow Brick Road

Slipknot - .execute

Sydney Blu - Senses and the Mind

Wonder why?

[RWSB1793]

@PawtucketPatriot66 RWSB1793. 01/12/04/2011 A.D. SPIRO THEODORE AGNEW WAS AN EARLY VERSION OF RICHARD BRUCE CHENEY-A COMPLETE JERK,A GENUINE ASSHOLE IF EVER THERE WAS ONE.THE REAL TRASH AND LEECHES ARE THE G.O.P. THEMSELVES.

[Nic00027]

thumbs up if sydney blu's senses and the mind brought u here :)

[DedicatedGropaga]

I used to think this guy's name was pronounced the same as that of the little purple video game dragon. =O

[CJMASHUPZTV]

This speech inspired Slipknot's song Execute :)

[29rep]

@gunterdak Classic. 

[snowboarder2000]

Please. Stop this hate.

[tradutom]

@ebonics4everyone (continued...) that Hitler needed to be removed, and certainly while he was committing genocide, he was also being aggressive towards his neighbors. Everyone did have an obligation to get rid of him. However, perhaps it would have been more proactive to stop corporations in the US and other countries from dealing with his government in the first place. As far as the modern wars of "liberation"...I don't see us liberating Darfur or Bahrain...oh yes, oil decides if we free or not

[tradutom]

@ebonics4everyone I love how people always assume that "leftist" is some magical grouping of any and all things that don't match a conservative American platform of thought. I love how Bin Laden is magically leftist, and Obama is a Marxist...um, making a mandate to buy insurance is corporate state facism. Big shocker, we've been corporatist for a long time now. We "leftists" criticize the illegal wars because of the illegality. You could make the argument that...(to be continued)

[oxopig]

Quite an extraordinary summation