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Is that the Agnew who was depicted as a headless body in Futurama (in an episode with Nixon's head)?

For comparison, Agnew is 3 years younger than Feynman so he was 22 in that picture, and Luis Alvarez was 32.

Spiro Agnew is a form of social disease, a jazz-fusion rock band, a former Vice President, the first woman in Congress?

And of course the whole VP nomination happened with Ford, who replaced Agnew without election and then replaced Nixon without election.

It's possible that Agnew never would have gotten the VP job in the first place had he not been fully compromised.

Jonathan Agnew has a similar story about the late, great Australian cricket commentator Richie Benaud, although filling ~52 seconds rather than 5 minutes.

The commentators, particularly for the Aus/England Ashes series were always better with the likes of Agnew and the now retired Blofeld providing much better commentary.

Just to be clear, the establishment had to get rid of Agnew before getting rid of Nixon, so they dug up an old scandal to do so.

This covers how Nixon and Agnew were ejected.

(...) Including all the causes of changes, Agnew suggests that a negative leap second might be needed some time in 2028.

(Not who you responded to) Spiro Agnew was felonious, so there is some precedent.

Goldwater and Agnew were of the more reactionary anti-press strain, as other commenters have noted; Nixon (per Crouse) genuinely loved the press (if not reporters themselves) and relished in his control over it.

> Richard Nixon There's a case that Spiro (“nattering nabobs of negativism”) Agnew is a better Nixon-era example than Nixon himself, not that it started then, either.

> I guess I’ll be known for nothing more than being the man who realized that “Spiro Agnew” was “grow a penis.” Gore Vidal said, “It could be ‘grow a spine,’ too, but yours is better.” Boy, they're really socking it to that Spiro Agnew guy again.

Back in the 70's a sitting VP had to leave office due to charges of extortion, bribery, and others (see Wikipedia on Spiro Agnew).

I think he was following the path of Walt Kelly, whose later cartoons featured characters with features of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.

> Kissinger made the Gang of Four complete: Agnew, Hoover, Kissinger and Nixon.