Does anyone remember the name of Nixon's criminal Veep?

[L. Coyote]

What was the name of this footnote anyway?

And what were his crimes?

What was his most famous line?

[AlCzervik]

1. agnew, tax evasion, Nattering nabobs of negativism.

[The Purple Shamrock]

2. Spiro Agnew Baby!

Since I didn't cheat by heading over to Wikipedia, that's all I got for you!

[carpe diem]

3. i think it was...

Spiro Agnew

tax evasion?


?????

[Glorfindel]

4. Spiro Agnew

His crime was accepting bribes (I believe) while he was governor of Maryland. His most famous line - only famous line, I think, was calling the press "nattering nabobs of negativism."

[Graybeard]

26. Written by Pat Buchanan.

...Agnew didn't have the brain of a flea.

[yellowcanine]

29. I heard that line was written by William Safire. Buchanan wasn't that poetic.

Wikipedia credits Safire with the line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Safire

[Graybeard]

30. Probably right.

...a Buchanan quote would have been a lot more thuggish.

[ngant17]

5. Spiro Agnew

tax evasion, I think.

"Natering nabobs of negativism"?

[kenny blankenship]

Spiro Agnew

pled nolo contendere to tax evasion, but the underlying crime was taking bribes when he was Maryland's Governor.

[scarletwoman]

6. "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism" -- Spiro Agnew.

Don't remember his crimes, though. Just remember how lovely it was to see the idiot brought down.

sw

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. Also the line "effete snobs"

[Hepburn]

7. Spiro "Ted" Agnew

He took bribes while gov of Maryland...and what is ironic? He went down for tax evasion BECAUSE HE DID NOT REPORT THE BRIBES as income on his returns!

[The Purple Shamrock]

8. He took how many brides??

That's the most hilarious spelling error I've seen in a while!

[Hepburn]

10. I just caught the typo and fixed it.....

....I must have been channeling info on John McCain!

That's what I get for doing my nails and posting on the DU at the same time! LOL

[The Purple Shamrock]

11. I'm glad

I got a chance to see it...I laughed so hard the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale came out both nostrils.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Meets all the criteria for today's Repubeican candidates

[LuckyLib]

32. Yes -- wouldn't he fit right in with the sleaze-bags we have now?

He was a prototype for Cheney -- sly, disparaging, sneaky, snotty, and a know-it-all. And he sunk like a stone.

[mnhtnbb]

17. Spiro T. Agnew

[Prophet 451]

9. Spiro Agnew

And he was convicted of tax evasion on bribes (the Al Capone rule). Strangely, he was never charged with taking bribes though.

[nickyt]

12. We all called him "Spiggy"!

"pussalmious pussyfooters of" - whatever
he was a scream!

[Casper]

13. It was Spiro Agnew

He resigned amid charges of tax evasion. He got the super-duper deal on that one.

Wikipedia has a collection of "his" famous quotes, but they were mostly written by Pat Buchanan and William Safire.

During the 1968 election, my father was working for Johnson at the White House and my mother was working for Humphrey's national campaign office. That was when Nixon's slogan was "Nixon's the One!". My father said he wanted a bumper sticker that said "Nixon's the One. And Spiro's the Zero." That still makes me laugh today.

Interesting to note that Mitt Romney's dad, George, nearly became the VP candidate in '68.

[sce56]

15. Easy from a saying back in the 70's Nixon & Agnew in 72 Why change horses in the middle of a Screw!

[Forrest Greene]

16. Paul Krassner, Of The Realist

...was perhaps the first to note that "Spiro Agnew" anagrams out to "Grow A Penis."

And Gil Scott-Heron deduced that "...if Nixon, knew, Ag knew; but Ag didn't knew enough to stay out of jail..."

[primative1]

18. I still have my Spiro watch someplace ...

I think its in a box in the attic someplace.
Damn thing never worked which only seemed appropriate.

[Joe Bacon]

19. And I have the Agnew Trash Can

with his golfing exploits on one side and his tennis blunders on the other!

[Stinky The Clown]

20. I've got a 'SPIRO' candle

Red, white and blue wax that spells out S-P-I-R-O in capital letters. Never burned ..... unlike the country.

[L. Coyote]

21. Thanks everyone. This is far more entertaining than to Wiki. n/t

[Graybeard]

27. First criminal VP: Agnew, 2nd criminal VP: Ford.

Agnew's crimes well discussed here. Ford's crimes go back to the Warren Commission (if not before) and continue to the pardon of Nixon. Criminal.

[Greybnk48]

22. Spiro and I share the same birthday.

One of us is/was not an arrogant buffoon. :hi:

[draft_mario_cuomo]

23. Didn't he also invent the "liberal media" myth?

[rep the dems]

33. Yes, it was mainly Nixon and Agnew who started that bullshit.

Though I think Goldwater said something about it too. Nobody in my Government class seemed to find this suspicious :eyes:

[GreenZoneLT]

24. All the kids used to tease me, and say...

Spiro, Spiro is a zero. With a name like that, he must be a queero.

David Fry -- Richard Nixon, A Fantasy

Agnew was busted for taking cash bribes while governor of Maryland.

And, duh, nattering nabobs of negativism.

Our highest-ranking Greek-American in U.S. history, unfortunately. I don't think the Greeks brag about him as much as the Irish do Kennedy.

[LeftishBrit]

25. Spiro Agnew

He pleaded guilty to tax evasion; but was also believed to have committed other crimes, including taking bribes as a state governor.

Was 'Silent Majority' his phrase, or was it Nixon's?

I once heard of a child - was it in Agnew's time? - who wrote in a school exercise, "Vice means something bad, like a vice-president."

But no one could be worse than Cheney!

[yellowcanine]

28. Remember him? Hell I remember everyone saying "Spiro who?" when Nixon tapped him

for Veep. And I also remember the "Laugh In" line, "And here's to you, Mr. Agnew."