Spiro Agnew

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• 1/28/20
  

  Secretary Pompeo, Meet Vice President Agnew

  by Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte, and Jerald Podair

  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s expletive-laden dust-up with NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly is on message for the Trump-led Republican Party. Whether he knows it or not, Pompeo is drawing from a playbook written a half century ago. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8-7-17
  

  Trump Falls Under the Shadow of Spiro Agnew

  In the age of Trump, the Agnew case, with its history of lies, greed, kickbacks, and the self-regard of its central actor, might seem the better predictor of what could come next.

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• SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun
  5-9-15
  

  Channeling Spiro Agnew in the Baltimore riots

  by Charles Holden, Zach Messitte, Jerald Podair

  His reaction to the unfolding situation helped make him a household name and led to a reshaping of American electoral politics.

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• SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
  

  Ben Bradlee, Spiro Agnew and the 'Gray-Haired Grandmother Defense'

  by Charles J. Holden and Zach Messitte

  The clever "Gray-Haired Grandmother Defense" argued that Mr. Cohen's notes on the Agnew investigation were actually the property of Graham, as his employer, and not the reporter.