OT: From www.timelines.ws
1969 Nov 13, Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
(AP, 11/13/97)
1970 Nov 13, VP Spiro Agnew called TV executives "impudent snobs."
(MC, 11/13/01)
1970 Dr. Hale E. Dougherty (d.2002) began marketing a Spiro Agnew wristwatch. It was a re-sult of the current joke: "Did you know that Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.
(SFC, 1/3/03, p.A28)
1971 Spiro Agnew, US Vice-President, visited Greece and called the ruling junta the country's best leaders since Pericles. (SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A20)
1973 Aug 8, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland and vowed not to resign. He eventually did resign.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1973 Dec 6, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeed-ing Spiro T. Agnew. Agnew, vice president to President Richard M. Nixon, resigned from his of-fice and pleaded no contest to one charge of income tax invasion in return for the dropping of all other charges. Agnew, the only US Vice President to resign in disgrace, was fined $10,000 and given three year's probation.
(AP, 12/6/97)(MC, 12/6/01)
1974 May 2, Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals, effectively preventing him from practicing law anywhere in the United States.
(AP, 5/2/97)
