The Agnew story was really interesting.
It was not a grand plan—the Deep State really did just get lucky when a Maryland corruption case fell into their lap.
Maryland was corrupt—no doubt.
Agnew was corrupt—no doubt—though probably about average as governor’s go...as I have often written around here my grandfather was in the construction business and paid the CT governor and other bribes (for state contracts) with suitcases of money at a hog dog stand in a small town here. Nobody ever got caught in these parts—and the local media was totally clueless—and this went on for decades.
However it is the timing of the case where the luck kicked in....
Interesting items.
Here’s a funny anecdote. In the old days of magazines in print it often took around 4 months minimum for an issue to go from rough ideas to being shipped to newsstands. Writers had to pitch Christmas stories in June or so.
In Esquire they printed a confident putdown of silly current conspiracy stories. They derided the story of hidden elites in DC and said “So if that were true, which it isn’t, the elite would have found some way to get Agnew out of office. He represents the wrong side in the cowboys theory. And Agnew is still the Vice President today.
((Agnew had resigned on October 10, 1973 and readers holding the Esquire issue wondered if elites in DC really existed.))