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| Spiro Agnew, U.S. vice president |
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Denounces student political movements |
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| "A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an impudent core of effete snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals." (Houston, Texas, May 22, 1970) |
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| Spiro Agnew, President Richard M. Nixon's first vice president, was one of the nation's most outspoken critics of the antiwar and counterculture movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1970, midway through his first term as vice president, he campaigned vigorously in the congressional campaigns against liberals and antiwar candidates in both parties. On May 22, 1970, before a Republican dinner in Houston, Texas, he was heard denouncing intellectuals and college students as reactionary and un-American. Reelected with Nixon in 1972, on October 10, 1973, Agnew became the first vice president in American history to resign in disgrace. The same day, he pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion in exchange for the dropping of charges of political corruption. Representative Gerald R. Ford of Michigan was sworn in as Nixon's new vice president on December 6, and became president of the United States on August 9, 1974, after the escalating Watergate affair forced President Nixon's resignation.
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