“Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society.... We have seen all too clearly that there are men - now in power in this country - who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.”
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Spiro T. Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew was a former Vice President of the United States. He was born on November 9, 1918, and died on September 17, 1996. Agnew's political career was marked by his resignation due to corruption, making him the first Vice President in U.S. history to resign over a scandal. more
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