Commentary: If the nation was able to survive the challenges of summer 1973, it certainly should be able to survive the challenges of summer 2023.
Opinion content—editorials, columns and guest commentaries—is created independent of news reporting and is exclusive to subscribers.Spiro Agnew, center, is shown leaving court in Baltimore in 1973 after pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion. Agnew resigned from the vice presidency shortly after.
For one involves criminal allegations involving a former president outside of power yet seeking a return to office. The other involves the criminality of those actually sitting in power — Agnew pleaded no contest to the criminal charge against him while serving under Nixon, who himself was under criminal investigation.And the country’s ability to survive the latter threat strongly suggests its ability to survive the former.
Agnew was a physically imposing yet politically unremarkable figure when selected out of obscurity to be Nixon’s running mate in 1968. Agnew had worked his way up the political ladder, starting with local Baltimore-area government positions and ultimately to governor of Maryland.
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