SYND 16/10/73 SPIRO AGNEW EXPLAINS HIS RESIGNATION
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- (15 Oct 1973) Former United States Vice President Spiro Agnew explaining his reasons for not fighting the allegations of tax evasion which led him to resign.
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Fun fact: Spiro Agnew is the second vice president to resign, the first being John Calhoun
Another fun fact, this gentleman’s name in an anagram is:
Grow a penis
Evidently, Spiro just didn't buy enough Google Play cards to properly pay his all his taxes...
Isn't it convenient for Nixon that this happened when it did?
It was orchestarted perfectly, Nixon knew that due to watergate, he was most likely going to have to leave office. It's not a coincidence that as watergate was unfolding that Agnew's past criminal actions had came out. I had read somewhere that Nixon did not want Agnew to ascned to the presidency in the event Nixon either left office or was convicted and fired by the senate. I personally feel the Repbulican Party wanted Ford, to become Nixons VP then ascend to the presidency once Nixon left Washington. Although this does confuse me as Ford was the "leader" of the Repbulican Party, he did face staunch critisim from more conservative republicans, notably Ronald Reagan when Ford attempted to run for the presidency in 1976. And we all know that led to Ford being narrowly defeated by Jimmy Carter
@@raymond6646Ronald Reagan would've beat Jimmy Carter in 1976.
@@E.C.2 Not to sure about that, even Ronald Reagan has said the political environment in 1976 wouldn’t have benefited him as much as the political environment did in 1980. He most likely would’ve still lost and like he did in 1980, would’ve lost support from northeastern republicans that would’ve most likely gave Jimmy Carter the upper hand in the election
@@raymond6646 We disagree.
God bless have a blessed day.
@@E.C.2 Ok, it doesn’t matter if you don’t agree
A crook is a crook. Smooth or not, he is still a lying, corrupt, criminal.
He chose to quit immediately as a plea bargain to not get criminally charged.
What a hero! What a role model!
A fucking SNAKE!
Let the grownups talk
@@SSs-ch4ey I am.
Anything to add?
@@SSs-ch4ey Okay hot shot you sound smart but you don’t act like it
@@francisharris7790they're probably projecting because they're a fan of another political crook who's going to rot, rightfully so, in jail - hopefully for the rest of his pathetic life
My guilty plea does not represent a confession of guilt whatsoever for any other purpose. Ehh ok....
He sounded like a newsman delivering the evening news, and not the Vice President of the United States.
Remember, he was afraid Haig was going to bump him off.
Jeff Sessions should resign like Agnew. At least he has dignity and ethics.
Robert McMann he did not have any of them.
I here because of Futurama 😊
While this guy maybe a crook, I wish more politicians today would behave like him. Back then crooks resigned, now not only they stay, they also vilify anyone who calls them up on it.
They had dignity and true love for good of the country which is a far cry from what we see today.
Didn’t expect his voice to be pretty soothing!
Radio voice 👍🏻
hes living in a different world. if you are innocent, you fight because eventually you will be vindicated. guilty people strike plea bargains.
Peaceistheanswer27 Yes but what I got from the beginning is that he did say he knew he was saying he was guilty basically and he didn't want to cause any more harm than what was needed. He realized he was caught so he at the same time as realizing it was a easy way out thought it was just the best option for everyone.
@piewackett1 You must understand, the present legal system isn't about due process, it's about alleviating the caseloads, ie, plea bargaining. If cases actually went to trial, the system would collapse. In most cases, if not all, it's better to know the judge than the law.
And he struck a plea bargain
@@mattja52 False, it's plea bargains for the working poor. The wealthy and the well connected get a team of lawyers.
My guilty plea does not mean in anyway that guilty'
😆 🤣
But seriously if you don't want to admit guilt plead no contest...
I'll say this for Agnew: he may have been a crook, but he had far more dignity than Tricky Dick.
Christopher Saunders it should been Agnew/nixon
It was the intelligence agencies.
Dulles killed Kennedy. Brought downLBJ by leaking and engineering the media. Nixon started recording everything because he was deeply suspicious of the intelligence agencies.
The senate Church commitee (led by Frank Church) tried to reign them in, until 9/11 and the Patriot act let them spy on everyone.
@@mikeingersoll4466 Nixon being the vice president gave him much more popularity than Agnew. Having Agnew run with Nixon as his running make they would've lost to Humphrey.
Both had far more dignity than Jumbo Lyndon
President Richard Nixon was a good Man.
Rachel Maddow's new book, "Bag Man," is riveting about Spiro and Baltimore, all the way to payoffs in the White House. The night he attacked television newsmen, I was on the air with the 11 o'clock news. All the way home til midnight I kept looking over my shoulder, as it was a mean, mean, mean attack. No doubt Buchanan was writing his "nattering nabobs of negativism"speeches about the media.
Maddow sucks, anyone who listens to her is part of the brainwashed masses.
@@Providence.. So specifically -- in detail -- which facts did Rachel get wrong in this report?
@@Providence.. And anyone, like you, who doesn't listen to her but has strong opinions about her nonetheless is what? Perhaps you should consider the benefits of silence.
It's an excellent book. He was a career criminal. Much like Trump only without the legit business deals thrown in the mix.
Link to Bagman on CZcams czcams.com/video/qXpfCpZ6CdM/video.html
Agnew was my neighbor in Tenino Washington, T-9-0 ranch. next to Harold Dahl on the Murry Island incident, and Kennedy assignation connection. Do some research you will catch up. Spokane, Wa. News reporter.
Crooks and now The Mob. Thanks GOP!
Anyone think that Agnew is owed an apology with all the crooks in Washington these days?
No. Just because modern politicians are corrupt doesn’t make Agnew any less corrupt.
Yes.the crimes he allegedly committed were childsplay compared to what we've defended and turned a blind eye too in the last 5yrs of a certain president
What he didn't know and could not have known, he just threw away the presidency -- thank God. Agnew was a dullard.
I do not hear his usual arnnngggh. And why does he have a head?
Spiro was a great American.
no he was not by any stretch of the imagination he was one of the most corrupt public officials in modern us history
65 TossPowerTrap crook, you forgot crook. Spiro was a great American Crook.
@@donaldeugene6324oh you knew him personally?
@@rayali9854 read the bagman book, he was a crook,even bush snr was involved in trying to cover it up,safe to say American politics has been rotten for generations
@darrens2601 I read it.but I'm anxiously awaiting the premiere of your book
Tom Metzger for VP.
Lock him up!
Sounds like Nixon just borrowed Agnew’s Speech when he resigned
Trumps path
..Dror Zeevi going on to attain a PhD in °The District of Jerusalem in the Seventeenth Century°.
Handsome and winsome man.
"In this technological age, image becomes dominant. Appearance supersedes reality." Jean Baudrillard? Nope, as always, Republican politicians are always about 10 years ahead of the French intellectual avant-garde.
Karma, Spiro.
If Trump had as much sense we’d (many) benefit.
z B do you even know what trump does in office or do you get butthurt over him making fun of your politicians
Alex La Rosa defunded 100 million dollars from the virus surveillance plan which costed the US at least 70 days behind track on maintaining the coronavirus, disbanded the pandemic unit on the NSC which experts had praised, took nearly a year to do anything about the virus after knowing about it and now studies are showing that if he even just acted a week sooner, 36,000 Americans would’ve been saved. Now the economy is going down and the unemployment rate is around 20%.
really?
z B yep
@@joepoop4000 "Now the economy is going down and the unemployment rate is around 20%." Gee, I wonder why, could it be because Biden is president now and is enacting his shitty policies as well? Trump isn't even president anymore so both of you stfu.
Look for my song SPIRO i used this speech to make a song haha
ah fuck
MAYBE HE JUST SAID- TO HECK WITH THIS CRAP!!i
The Clinton grifters make Agnew sound like an amateur.
Ken Starr (you might remember him from Jeffrey Epstein's list of "guests", WITH video!) was given more money by the Republican Congress to investigate the Clintons than Bush gave the 9/11 Commission.
Result? Nothing. Except that Bill Clinton had another affair with a consenting adult, this time a White House intern. Clinton lied about Monica under oath. That and "obstruction of justice" were the ONLY Charges in the Clinton Impeachment process. Nixon? Ford buried a great many crimes when Nixon faced impeachment; Project Northwoods, spying on Americans, spying on the opposition, sabotaging political campaigns...
Have none of you heard the audio with Agnew and the Saudi King? Its the most racist rant you will hear as he begs for money.
The man that should’ve been president #38.
A good man.
Evryone hates spiro agnew
NO- JUST YOU!
Anyone who named their kid "Spiro" hated him too.
It could be Biden except he's too coherant!
Robert Blakeman how would Biden resign as vice president if he isn’t vice president?🤔
This gonna be Pence soon...
Ok boomer
Pence has weird ideas, and is strange but he is no Agnew other than serving his boss. Doubt he is on the take. Not a nice man, not a charitable man to those he considers different, but so far seems honest. I would hope he will write a book about his experiences with Trump. Surely he can't be for what Trumps says and do. But it is his job to reinforce the boss. And no, I don't respect him. Agnew was the attack dog.