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ORIGINAL POLITICAL POSTER OF SPIRO AGNEW….. THIS IS A ORIGINAL POSTER (BLACK&WHITE WITH RED LETTERING) IS OF SPIRO T. AGNEW WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR "VISE PRESIDENT" BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED WITH OUR THEN MOST NOTEABLE PRESIDENT "RICHARD MILLHOUSE NIXON" BACK IN 1969-1973 .THE CONDITION IS VERY GOOD WITH NO TEARS OR RIPS AND MEASURES…..22 ˝ INCHES –34 INCHES.THERE IS A SMALL TAPE MARK ON THE SIDE EDGE BUT DOES NOT TAKE AWAY FROM THE HISTORICAL CONTENT……… On October 10, 1973, following months of pressure and scandal, Vice President Spiro Agnew turned in his letter of resignation to President Nixon becoming only the second vice president to resign.* Michigan representative Gerald R. Ford took his place as vice president on December 6, 1973. Agnew began his political life as a liberal Democrat and ended it as a law-and-order Republican who pleaded nolo contendere (no contest) to charges of tax fraud.
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| He once called the media "nattering nabobs of negativism"** and found a political base with both social conservatives and what would later be called Reagan Democrats. He rose quickly from a mere county executive of Baltimore County in 1962 to the Republican candidate for governor of Maryland in 1966. The Democrats nominated a race-baiting candidate and Agnew, running to the left of him, won becoming one of the first Republican governors south of the Mason-Dixon line since the Civil War. Just two years later, Nixon chose him to be his far-right, hippie-bashing, anti-intellectual attack dog - a role he relished. |
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