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8 de nov. de 2019 · 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.
8 de nov. de 2019 · 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 to succeed Richard Nixon. In his attacks on television news, Agnew struck a chord with conservatives who had long regarded the media ...
11 de dic. de 2020 · ‘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 with Frank Sinatra at the Pump Room after he left office. Here’s what happened. By Michael Sneed.
4 de sept. de 2018 · He was Trump before Trump, pioneering slashing attacks on the press as both liberal and untrustworthy. He also maintained that as vice president he could not be indicted -- an assertion that...
Agnew himself was a Trump-like character – a businessman with shady practices in his past, he had moved from a liberal Republican position in his early days to an extreme right, even racist position by the time he became vice-president.
Spiro T. Agnew was a reactionary comet who streaked across the American political firmament. Vice-President to Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, when Agnew resigned in disgrace, he is now almost completely unremembered.
7 de ago. de 2017 · On August 7, 1973, the Wall Street Journal published a startling story: Spiro Agnew, elected in 1968 as Richard Nixon’s Vice-President, was under investigation for tax evasion, bribery, and...
