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Article: SPIRO AGNEW: 1918-1996 NIXON VICE PRESIDENT RESIGNED IN DISGRACE.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- September 18, 1996
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Byline: Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Spiro T. Agnew, Richard Nixon's strident point man who railed against the media as ''nattering nabobs of negativism'' and became the only vice president forced to resign in disgrace, died at age 77.
Agnew died Tuesday afternoon at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, near his summer home in Ocean City. Hospital officials refused to release details of his death.
Picked by Nixon as his running mate in 1968, Agnew established himself as a national political force by employing a colorful phraseology in criticizing anti-war protesters, liberals and the media, and by proclaiming himself spokesman for the ...