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“ ”Agnew was like Nixon's id — without the burden of much actual knowledge or curiosity or responsibility to the country at large.
About Rachel Maddow
Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) s an American television news program host and liberal political commentator.
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The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
Senator Beall, they believed, owed the White House a favor because Nixon and Agnew had helped him get elected three years earlier. George and Glenn Beall’s father had lost his Senate seat in 1964; when it came up again in 1970, Nixon and Agnew personally helped Glenn avenge the loss by campaigning for him in Maryland, multiple times. And it worked: the Republican Party got that Senate seat back, and so did the Beall family. Now one of the Beall sons was going to try to destroy Spiro Agnew with this investigation? No. Nixon and Agnew decided it was time for Glenn Beall to return the favor and lean on his little brother, the prosecutor.
I move that in view of your honor’s attitude this afternoon — the way you looked at me and condemned me, you have become so prejudiced against me, it will be impossible for you to sit in fairness in this case, both as arbiter and in judgment — that you disqualify yourself.