• Kalothar
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    And if you were wondering what happened to Agnew:

    “ After months of maintaining his innocence, Agnew pleaded no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion and resigned from office. Nixon replaced him with House Republican leader Gerald Ford. Agnew spent the remainder of his life quietly, rarely making public appearances. He wrote a novel and a memoir, both of which defended his actions. Agnew died at home in 1996 at age 77 of undiagnosed acute leukemia.”

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      Agnew wasn’t even remotely as bad as Trump, and it still disgusts me that he never saw a prison cell from the inside.