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speech. and it was a speech that he knew he would be giving to some of his most die-hard fans, people who would follow him to the end of the earth, and that was crucial at that moment in his political life because just a few weeks earlier the wall street journal had been first to report that that same vice president he was under federal criminal investigation on potential felony corruption charges, bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a whole bunch of stuff. this was very shocking front page news at the time. it was very damaging news for obvious reasons to the vice president, and he was completely enraged about it. so he flew out to california to give a talk to his most rabid supporters. it was the national conference of republican women. and these women were hard core activists, as a group generally speaking they were quite right-wing, and a group generally speaking they were quote devoted to superhero agnew. this has been forgotten in history but agnew was seen as bein ....
Activists, as a group generally speaking they were quite right-wing, and a group generally speaking they were quote devoted to superhero agnew. this has been forgotten in history but agnew was seen as being much more hard right, much more uncompromising than that old swish president nixon was. the real activists of the republican party, they loved spiro agnew even more than they loved richard nixon. so while agnew, their guy, was embattled by this reported federal investigation he goes up there to give a speech, and what he told them in that speech start off blunt but kind of normal. he said i am innocent of the charges against me. high then told them this was slightly more surprising he told the crowd he was going to use the courts himself to turn the tables and investigate the justice department for ....
Involved in watergate? well, history repeats itself. i mean when donald trump started in on the press i thought, yeah, i know richard nixon and the press. he appealed to the silent majority. his vice president superhero agnew went out and other little coplets attacking the press was one of his favorite techniques. his southern strategy based on is the civil war really over was another one of his techniques. but he was a little more refined than the president we have today. if you want to use the word thug in a sentence politically, richard nixon was right up there with mr. trump. let s look at the examples of your reporting for abc news during watergate. here it is. the democratic national committee is trying to silence now it s on the ....