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He was Trump before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew attacked the news media 50 years ago

  • Written by Thomas Alan Schwartz, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew on Aug. 8, 1973 at a Washington news conference.AP/file

Americans witnessed an unprecedented event 50 years ago: live television coverage on all three national networks of a speech by the vice president of the United States.

Speeches by vice presidents never received such attention. But the address on Nov. 13, 1969, by...

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