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 ...
The indictment of former president Donald Trump has taken the country into uncharted territory. Yet the case bears considerable resemblance to the successful prosecution of Vice President Spiro Agnew ...
He loved the limelight, was a voice for the silent majority and served as governor of Maryland before going out with a bang. St. Mary’s College of Maryland professor Chuck Holden spoke earlier this ...
The White House protests, perhaps too much, that Spiro Agnew is not “on a leash.” that he does not have to clear his speeches with headquarters. If that accurately reflects the Agnew-Nixon ...
Forty years ago, Richard Nixon reached into the State House in Annapolis and plucked maybe the least known candidate for vice president in all of American history before somebody named Sarah Palin ...
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 ...