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Vice President Agnew under attack - Aug 08, 1973 - HISTORY.com
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Vice President Agnew branded reports that he took kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland as “damned lies.” Agnew had taken a lot of heat in the media when he assumed a lead position as Nixon’s point man on Vietnam. He frequently attacked the student protest movement, blaming the intellectual community, which he referred to as “impudent snobs,” for campus unrest. Despite the charges of bribery and income tax evasion, Agnew vowed that he would never resign and blamed his troubles on the press, who, he said, were out to get him for his controversial stand on the war. Ultimately, however, he resigned from office on October 10, 1973.
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Vice President Agnew branded reports that he took kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland as “damned lies.” Agnew had taken a lot of heat in the media when he assumed a lead position as Nixon’s point man on Vietnam. He frequently attacked the student protest movement, blaming the intellectual community, which he referred to as “impudent snobs,” for campus unrest. Despite the charges of bribery and income tax evasion, Agnew vowed that he would never resign and blamed his troubles on the press, who, he said, were out to get him for his controversial stand on the war. Ultimately, however, he resigned from office on October 10, 1973.
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Vice President Agnew under attack - Aug 08, 1973 - HISTORY.com
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Office of the Vice President (VPOTUS)
Vietnam War
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The press certainly loved to attack Vice President Spiro Agnew directly or indirectly to get under his skin SP5 Mark Kuzinski. His language was very entertaining such "nattering nabobs of negativism," " effete corps of impudent snobs," "Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages" and best of all "Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam."
He supported the Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen who were serving in the Vietnam are of operations. He was the point man and the press hated him for it,
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He supported the Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen who were serving in the Vietnam are of operations. He was the point man and the press hated him for it,
LTC Stephen C. CW5 (Join to see) CW5 Charlie Poulton CSM Charles Hayden SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Forrest Stewart SGT Robert Hawks SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright
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Can you imagine a President Trump and a Agnew VP. The sycophants in the press heads would spin like someone possessed by evil spirits.
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