‘Nattering nabobs of negativism’: The improbable rise of Spiro T. Agnew
Addressing delegates at the 1968 Republican convention after being nominated vice president, Maryland’s Spiro T. Agnew acknowledged the obvious. The 49-year-old first-term governor was unknown to most of the delegates — even after making the nomination speech for presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon at the Miami Beach convention. To the extent that Agnew had a […]
