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Article: SPIRO AGNEW.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 19, 1996
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Former Vice President Spiro Agnew, who died Tuesday at the age of 77, will likely be remembered for having enriched the vocabulary of those who are wont to bash the liberal establishment. Effete snobs, he once called them in characteristic disdain. He had similar contempt for those of his era who dared question U.S. foreign policy, particularly in Vietnam, calling them ``nattering nabobs of negativism.''
Yet his invective was all a front. Behind it, and the impeccably tailored suits and shining reputation for integrity as a Baltimore County zoning official, was a corrupt man. The corruption began in Maryland and continued even as Mr. Agnew won the nation's second ...