Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (/ˈspɪroʊ ˈæɡnuː/; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was an American politician who served as the 39th Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973, under President Richard Nixon.
Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and University of Baltimore School of Law. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1941, serving as an officer during the Second World War, and was recalled for service during the Korean War in 1950. Agnew worked as an aide for U.S. Representative James Devereux before he was appointed to the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals in 1957. In 1960, he lost an election for the Baltimore City Circuit Court, but in 1962 was elected Baltimore County Executive. In 1966, Agnew was elected the 55th Governor of Maryland, defeating his Democratic opponent George P. Mahoney. He was the first Greek American to hold the position, serving between 1967 and 1969.
At the 1968 Republican National Convention, Agnew, who had earlier been asked to place Richard Nixon's name in nomination, was selected in private by Nixon and his campaign staff. He was then presented to the convention delegates for nomination for Vice President and ran alongside Nixon in the Presidential Election of 1968. Nixon and Agnew defeated the incumbent Vice President, Hubert Humphrey (formerly long-time Senator from Minnesota) and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. In 1972, Nixon and Agnew were reelected for a second term, defeating Senator George McGovern and Ambassador Sargent Shriver.
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- Great Moments of the 20th Century released: 2000
- Great Speeches of the 20th Century released: 1991
Great Moments of the 20th Century
Released 2000- News Report: Atomic Bomb Testing Continues (1953)
- News Report: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain (1953)
- News Report: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Denied Clemency (1953)
- President Dwight D Eisenhower Announces End to Korean Conflict (1953)
- Author Ray Bradbury Provides More Positive Outlook on Future Than His Book 'Fahrenheit 451" Suggests (1958)
- President Dwight D Eisenhower Assures There Will Be Further Development of Polio Vaccine (1954)
- News Report: Congressmen Provide Conflicting Viewpoint on School Desegregation (1954)
- Senator Joseph McCarthy Presides at House Unamerican Activities Hearings (1954)
- New York Giants Manager Leo Derocher States Strong Leadership Is a Baseball Team's Top Asset (1954)
- Author Ernest Hemingway Delivers Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1954)
- Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan Freed at the Top of His Form Hosting 'The Moondog Show' (1954)
- Ensure Your Safety With the Purchase of This Nuclear Survival Course Record Album; Supplies Are Limited (1954)
- James Dean Discusses His Craft on the Set of 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1954)
- News Report: Music Experts Squabble Over the Meaning of Rock and Roll (1956)
- News Report: Baseball Yankees Pitcher Don Larsen Delivers First Perfect Game in World Series History (1956)
- News Report: Hungarian Revolt Crushed by Soviets (1956)
- News Report: What Do We Know About Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro (1957)
- Althea Gibson Becomes First Black Athlete to Win Wimbledon Tennis Championship (1957)
- President Dwight D Eisenhower Denounces Arkansas Efforts to Enforce School Segregation (1957)
- Black Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr Speeks Out on Notion of Freedom (1957)
- News Report: United States Successfully Launches First Orbiting Satellite 'Explorer I' (1958)
- Author Lorraine Hansberry Discusses Her Play 'a Raisin in the Sun' (1959)
- News Report: NASA Introduces First Seven Astronauts for Project Mercury (1959)
- News Report: Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Visits U.S. for First Time (1959)
- Author Allan Ginsberg and Anthropologist Margaret Mead Discuss Origins of the Term 'Beat Generation' (1959)
- Candidates Debate Presidential Candidates John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon Square Off in Televised Debate (1960)
- President-Elect John F Kennedy Wins Narrow-Margin Victory (1960)
- President Dwight D Eisenhower Delivers 'Military Industrial Complex' Farewell Speech (1961)
- President John F Kennedy Addresses Nation With Inaugural Speech (1961)
- News Report: Bay of Pigs Invasion Denounced at United Nations Address (1961)
- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Decries Television as a Vast Wasteland (1961)
- News Report: The Birth of the Berlin Wall (1961)
- News Report: Launch of the Telstar Satellite Ushers in Age of High Speed Communications Technology (1962)
- Author John Steinbeck Discusses Winning Nobel Prize for Literature (1962)
- News Report: Debut of the World's First Talking/Singing Computer (1962)
- President John F Kennedy Visits the Berlin Wall and Rallies Anti-Communist Support (1963)
- News Report: President John F Kennedy Assassinated (1963)
- News Report: JFK Assassination Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald Is Shot (1963)
- News Report: North Vietnamese Vessels Attack United States Navy in Gulf of Tonkin (1964)
- Activist Mario Savio Speaks Out on University of California at Berkeley 'Educational Tyranny' (1964)
- News Report: Reports Confirm Soviet Communist Party Personnel Shake-Up (1964)
- Activist Whitney Young Talks in Selma Alabama on the Importance of the Black Vote (1965)
- News Report: Racial Violence Breaks Out in Watts District of Los Angeles (1965)
- News Report: Vietnamese Radio Propaganda Queen 'Hanoi Hannah' Broadcasts to United States Troops (1966)
- Dr Christiaan Barnard Performs First Human Heart Transplant (1967)
- Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir Articulates Israel's Need for Peace (1967)
- Senator Robert Kennedy Announces Presidential Candidacy (1968)
- President Lyndon B Johnson Declines Nomination for Re-Election (1968)
- Martin Luther King Jr Stirs Memphis Audience With 'Mountain Top' Speech (1968)
- News Report: Senator Robert Kennedy Is Assassinated (1968)
- News Report: Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia (1968)
- News Report: Riots Break Out at 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (1968)
- News Report: Apollo 8 Astronauts Conduct Christmas Eve Broadcast (1968)
- Mickey Mantle Gives Farewell Speech to Yankees Fans (1969)
- Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong Broadcasts Man's First Steps on Moon (1969)
- Beatle Paul McCartney Refutes Rumors of His Death (1969)
- News Report: Thousands of Protesters Show Support on Vietnam Moratorium Day (1969)
- Vice President Spiro Agnew Lashes Out Against 'The Media Elite' (1969)
Great Speeches of the 20th Century
Released 1991- The Farmer and the Republican Party
- Address to the American Indians
- Address to the Boys' Progressive League
- Inaugural Address
- Inaugural Address
- Election Eve Campaign Speech
- Inaugural Address
- Checkers Speech
- Presidential Campaign Address
- Republican Convention Address
- Presidential Debate
- Presidential Campaign Address
- Address to the Nation
- Presidential Campaign Address
- Inaugural Address
- Resignation Address
- Resignation Address
- Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech
- Inaugural Address
- Keynote Address for the Democratic Convention
- Address to the Democratic Convention
Born: 1918-11-09
Died: 1996-09-17
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So Broken
by: BjorkSo broken,
In pieces,
My heart is so broken,
I'm puzzling.
Here I go
Trying to run ahead of that,
Heart break train,
Thinking,
It will never catch up with me.
I'm so broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
So broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm,
heðan-biður,
** Icelandic part **
Wooh-ahhh-hmm...
I'm trying to land,
This aeroplane of ours gracefully,
But it seems just destined to crash,
I'm so broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
My heart is so broken,
heðan-biður-afte-care,
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm,
** Icelandic part **
How can, how can,
And I sense
All continuity
Has vanished away
At one step at a time now baby, baby
I'm so broken
heðan-liður-afte-care
I'm-m-m-mmm... so broken
heðan-biður-afte-care
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm
** Icelandic part **
I'm so...
Completely unhealable, baby
Ohhh!
Ohh-er-him
I'm so broken
Ahh-eða-miður-afte-care
Yeah, ha-ee, ha-ee, ha-mmm
En-lickel-afte-sjólvar
En-neon-co-cole-ah-ahh
Neo-sasar-ohh
En-mi-sshh...
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