[LongTimeMILurker]

Kwame Kilpatrick showed Rod The Beatle Blago the way. Stay in office as long as possible and don’t resign. That way you’ll have the most leverage. Somebody forgot to tell Nixon.

[Verginius Rufus]

Nixon managed to hang in there for more than 9 months after the pressure for impeachment began to mount (after the firing of Archibald Cox). He could have lasted some more days or weeks but at the time he resigned his chances of escaping conviction in a Senate trial were almost nil.

Agnew leveraged his position as VP to avoid prison time...I don't think Blagojevich has as much leverage, merely being a state governor and not next-in-line to the Presidency.