Addressing delegates at the 1968 Republican convention after being nominated for vice president, Maryland’s Spiro T. Agnew acknowledged the obvious. The 49-year-old first-term governor was unknown to ...

Before his electoral career ended in a Baltimore courtroom 50 years ago, Spiro T. Agnew had enjoyed a meteoric rise. In less than two decades, one of Maryland’s most famous sons ascended from a ...

Fifty years ago this fall Spiro Agnew put a new, tough-talking populist face on the GOP that proved to be the genesis of Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Agnew had barely served a year in Annapolis as ...

A few days after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the Republican governor of Maryland, Spiro T. Agnew, strode into a conference room in downtown Baltimore. In the hours after King ...

(TIME, September 30) -- Once upon a time in the '60s, in the days when the culture wars began, there lived an obscure first-term Governor of Maryland--a sleek-looking silvery man who wore sharkskin ...

An intriguing aspect of the tawdry career of Spiro Agnew not be found in Rachel Maddow’s bestseller, “Bag Man” — purportedly about “the wild crimes, audacious cover-up and spectacular downfall” of the ...

Barnet D. Skolnik was assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland from 1968 to 1978. Russell T. Baker Jr. was assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland from 1971 to 1974. Ronald S.