test it with nixon s criminal vice president, spiro agnew, who was running an extortion and bribery ring out of his office in the white house and got caught by federal prosecutors for doing b so. with spiro agnew, federal prosecutors actually did bring federal charges against him, but they negotiated this very sensitive deal whereby agnew resigned the vice presidency immediately, i mean right before, seconds before he walked into thefo courtroom to formall face those federal charges. and the importance of that is that it means technically, they never tried to charge nixon as a sitting president, nor did they ever trypr to charge agnew as a sitting vice president. they avoided testing that prospect with both nixon and agnew, each of them basically by the t skin of their teeth. so the rules about not charging a sitting a president, those rus were created, they took shape, they were formalized and put down in print during that crisis of criminality in the white