BALTIMORE (AP) — George Beall, the U.S. attorney who headed the investigation and prosecution that led to Spiro Agnew's resignation as vice president, has died, his wife said. Carolyn Beall said by ...

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On August 7, 1973, the Wall Street Journal published a startling story: Spiro Agnew, elected in 1968 as Richard Nixon’s Vice-President, was under investigation for tax evasion, bribery, and various ...

Before his electoral career ended in a Baltimore courtroom 50 years ago, Spiro T. Agnew had enjoyed a meteoric rise. In less than two decades, one of Maryland’s most famous sons ascended from a ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The widow of former Vice President Spiro Agnew has died. Judy Agnew was 91. Agnew’s daughter Susan Sagle said Friday her mother died on June 20 in Rancho Mirage, Calif., with her ...

Why Donald Trump selected Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate is still unknown. What did Trump see in Vance, who once called the former president “America’s Hitler” and unfit for the presidency ...

There are countless presidential scandals in U.S. history, but very few of them have resulted in resignation or impeachment — which is precisely why MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was drawn to the story of ...

If disgraced Richard Nixon Vice President Spiro Agnew was going to be featured prominently in the lead segment of a primetime cable news show in 2019, it would undoubtedly be Rachel Maddow‘s. And ...

Vanderbilt University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. Americans witnessed an unprecedented event 50 years ago: live television coverage on all three national networks of ...

Walter Dellinger was head of the Office of Legal Counsel from 1993 to 1996 and acting U.S. solicitor general from 1996 to 1997. What does the nation do if it turns out that a president of the United ...