President’s allies take the lead to set up yearlong celebrations around July 4, 2026, bringing in conservative groups and staff from campaign rallies.

On his way to becoming a household word, Spiro T. Agnew learned that lampoonery is the most devastating weapon in the political armory. “Look what’s happened to me,” the new Vice President ...

Agnew attended a black-tie stag dinner at the White House for Prince Philip. With remarks from the diplomatic Deans—Acheson and Rusk —the evening proceeded with a certain urbanity.

With more than a whiff of linkage between Nixon’s choice of Agnew and Trump’s of Vance, the notion of an insurance policy and antidote against conviction by the Senate must have some merit.

JD Vance’s transformation from a “never-Trumper” to his obedient attack-dog running mate mirrors the political path that Spiro Agnew trod more than a half-century ago. In 1968, Agnew, the ...

Now, however, I’m most often called Timmy by the people who, for various ill-defined reasons associated with my scholarship ...

JD Vance brings to mind Spiro Agnew, whose selection by Republican Richard Nixon in 1968 baffled party veterans.

Yet, long before Trump, another Republican office-bearer garnered high marks for his cutting political invective. Spiro T. Agnew served as the 39th vice president of the United States from Jan. 20 ...

Spiro T. Agnew served as the 39th vice president of the United States from Jan. 20, 1969 to Oct. 10, 1973, when he was forced to resign after pleading no contest to a felony charge of tax evasion.

Tell Spiro Agnew that Donald Trump is the new nattering nabob of negativism If Olympic awards were to be given to an unsurpassed example of a nattering nabob of negativism, then Donald J. Trump ...

Baby Boomers will recall that phrase as Spiro Agnew's slur on the media, whose coverage of the Nixon administration was negative indeed. Boomers might also laugh, since both Nixon and Agnew, his ...

I was present in court 50 years ago when Republican Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, a former Maryland governor, entered his “no contest” plea to the tax charges brought against him by the ...