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Judicial Follies: Spiro’s not my hero
Spiro Agnew was never Richard Nixon’s first choice to become vice-president. But he was placed on the 1968 the presidential ticket as part of Nixon’s “Southern strategy” to court voters in the South. South Carolina’s Sen. Strom Thurmond told Nixon he wanted a “southerner” as vice-president in exchange for his support. Nixon selected Agnew, who as Governor of Maryland was from a state barely south of the Mason-Dixon line — but it was “southern” enough. In the early years of Nixon’s administration, Agnew became the darling of conservatives, reliably attacking liberals, ant-war protesters, and especially the press. His speechwriter was the wordsmith William Safire, addicted both to alliteration

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