History UsefulNotes / SpiroAgnew

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* In '' VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'' Spiro Agnew is the Vice Presidential candidate for Margareth Chase Smith's ticket in case she is choosen as the Presidential candidate for the NPP in 1968.

* In '' VideoGame/{{TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope}}'' Spiro Agnew is the Vice Presidential candidate for Margareth Chase Smith's ticket in case she is choosen as the Presidential candidate for the NPP in 1968.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E12TeamHomer "Team Homer"]], while reading ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', Milhouse comments, "Boy! They're really sockin' it to that Spiro Agnew guy again, he must work there or something."

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', in which there's a RunningGag about the heads of famous historical figures being [[BrainInAJar kept preserved in jars]], and the head of Richard Nixon is the President of Earth, the Vice President of Earth is the headless ''body'' of Agnew instead, which just lumbers around menacingly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', in which there's a RunningGag about the heads of famous historical figures being [[BrainInAJar kept preserved in jars]], and the head of Richard Nixon being President of Earth, the Vice President of Earth is the headless ''body'' of Agnew, which just lumbers around menacingly.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', in which there's a RunningGag about the heads of famous historical figures being [[BrainInAJar kept preserved in jars]], the Vice President of Earth is the headless body of Agnew instead, which just lumbers around menacingly.

* In ''Our Gang'', Creator/PhilipRoth's satirical book about the Nixon administration, he's only referred as [[VicePresidentWho Vice President What's-his-name]]. The book also parodies Agnew's use of alliteration, with Vice President What's-his-name's speeches being alliterating ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates.

* In ''Our Gang'', Creator/PhilipRoth's satirical book about the Nixon administration, he's only referred as [[VicePresidentWho Vice President What's-his-name]]. The book also parodies Agnew's use of alliteration, with Vice President What's-his-name's speeches being {{Long List}}s of alliterating phrases.

* In ''Our Gang'' Creator/PhilipRoth's satirical book about the Nixon administration, he's only referred as [[VicePresidentWho Vice President What's-his-name]]. The book also parodies Agnew's use of alliteration, with Vice President What's-his-name's speeches being {{Long List}}s of alliterating phrases.

* In ''Our Gang'' Creator/PhilipRoth's satirical book about the Nixon administration, he's only referred as [[VicePresidentWho Vice President What's-his-name]]. The bok also parodies Agnew's use of alliteration, with Vice President What's-his-name's speeches being LongLists of alliterating phrases.

Born in Baltimore to an American-born mother and a Greek immigrant father, in 1966 Agnew was elected Governor of Maryland. Just two years later at the 1968 Republican National Convention, Richard Nixon asked Agnew so he could name him as running mate; while Agnew's centrist reputation interested Nixon, the increasing "law and order" stance he had taken in the wake of civil unrest that year appealed to Nixon's aides. While he was viewed as having made a number of gaffes during the campaign,[[note]]He used the derogatory term "Polack" to describe Polish-Americans, referred to a Japanese-American reporter as a "Jap", and appeared to dismiss poor socio-economic conditions by stating that "if you've seen one slum you've seen them all."[[/note]] his rhetoric pleased many Republicans, and when Nixon defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey, Agnew may have made the difference in several key states.[[note]]While the Republicans narrowly lost Agnew's home state of Maryland, some pollsters credited him with helping his party win several border and Upper South states that might easily have fallen to Alabama Governor George Wallace's third-party run: South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Had Nixon lost those five states, he would have had only the minimum number of electoral votes needed, 270, and any defection by an elector would have thrown the election to the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives.[[/note]] As vice president, Agnew was often called upon to attack the administration's enemies while he progressively moved to the right, appealing to conservatives who were suspicious of moderate stances taken by Nixon. In the presidential election of 1972, Agnew was re-elected for a second term after Nixon defeated Senator George [=McGovern=].

[[caption-width-right:325:''"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."'' [[note]]Man loved his AddedAlliterativeAppeal.[[/note]]]]