During his fifth year as Vice President, in 1973, Spiro Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000 while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, Governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States. On October 10, 1973, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President. Agnew is the only Vice President in United States history to resign because of criminal charges.
Although it was not an official firing, Spiro T. Agnew had to resign in 1973. He had plead no contest to charges of federal income tax evasion.
none The only U.S. President who resigned was Richard Nixon, on August 9, 1974. His first Vice President, Spiro Agnew, resigned ten months earlier, on October 10, 1973.
Vice presidents of the 1970'sThe 37th President of the United States was Richard Nixon January 20, 1969 August 9, 1974. His Vice President was Spiro Agnew from 1969-1973. Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973 after criminal charges were brought against him. Gerald Ford was Vice President from 1973-1974, and Succeeded Nixon when he was impeached. Gerald Ford was the 38th President of the United States from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977. His Vice President was Nelson Rockefeller. Walter Mondale was the Vice President from 1977-1981 under the 39th President Jimmy Carter.
Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006) became the 38th President of the United States when Richard Nixon resigned. Ford became Vice President on December 6, 1973, after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew in October, 1973.
President Nixon's alleged abuse of authority in The Vietnam War led to the War Powers Resolution of 1973.
Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from office on October 10, 1973.
Spiro Agnew was the Vice President that was forced to resign in 1973 and he was replaced by Congressman Gerald R. Ford, who became President in 1974, President Richard M. Nixon was forced to resign. President Gerald R. Ford is the only President who was not directly voted for President, or Vice President, by the people voting in a general election who held the office. It was the first, and only time, both the elected President and Vice President had to leave office, and someone else had to be President.
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro Agnew in 1973. He was the second to resign.
October 10, 1973 was the date that VP Spiro Agnew resigned his office as part of a plea bargain for crimes committed while he was governor of Maryland.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States in October 1973
Spiro Agnew is the only vide president forced to resign because he took bribes prior to becoming vice president. From Wikipedia: During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney’s office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000, while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States. On October 10, 1973, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $29,500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President. Agnew is the only Vice President in U.S. history to resign because of criminal charges. Ten years after leaving office, in January 1983, Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew retrieved on April 29, 2009)
Spiro Agnew is the U.S. vice president who was impeached but did not resign. He served as vice president under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. Agnew resigned from office in 1973 due to charges of tax evasion and bribery.
He resigned on October 10, 1973, as a result of criminal investigations dating from his term as the Governor of Maryland (January, 1967 - January, 1969). He later pled "no contest" to bribery charges and was disbarred. After being forced to resign as Vice President, his party did not consider him to be a viable candidate for President.
The first Vice-President for Richard M. Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was Spiro T. Agnew, who served as Vice-President from 1969 to 1973. The second Vice-President for Nixon was Gerald R. Ford, who served as Vice-President from 1973-1974, succeeding Nixon as President on August 9, 1974 following Nixon's resignation from office.
The President's Plane Is Missing - 1973 TV was released on: USA: 23 October 1973
Although it was not an official firing, Spiro T. Agnew had to resign in 1973. He had plead no contest to charges of federal income tax evasion.