"Given Rockefeller's popularity, Nixon-Rockefeller would have been a dream ticket. Even if Rockefeller wouldn't accept the number-two spot, New York major John Lindsay, a handsome, well-liked liberal who had helped right the Kerner Commission report on racial violence, had made it clear that he was eager to run as Nixon's vice president. Conservative Nixon with liberal Lindsay would have brought to the Republican Party the full spectrum of American politics. Instead Nixon turned to the Right, picking a little-known and not much loved archconservative, with views, especially on race and law and order, that were so reactionary that to many he seemed an outright bigot."
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Anti-communists from the United StatesLawyers from the United StatesVice Presidents of the United StatesPoliticians from BaltimoreGovernors of Maryland
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Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World (2004), ISBN 0-345-45581-9
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Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (9 November 1918 – 17 September 1996) was the thirty-ninth vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign the position, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832. He served with President Richard Nixon.
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