Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret

Bag Man

MSNBC

History, News, Rachel Maddow

4.8 • 28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

He was brash. Politically incorrect. An “outsider” political candidate who rose to the White House, out of nowhere, with a reputation as a “counter-puncher.” But Vice President Spiro Agnew was also something else… an active criminal whose secrets were about to be exposed. What happens when a “counter-puncher” in the White House suddenly sees his political future directly threatened by investigators inside his own Justice Department?

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0:00.0	My kind of man today, New Year.
0:07.0	My kind of man today, New Year.
0:12.0	When Richard Nixon tapped Spiro Agnew,
0:14.0	Ted to his friends,
0:16.0	to be his running mate in 1968,
0:18.0	this was the Ted Agnew that the country was introduced to.
0:22.0	Your kind of man today, New Year.
0:28.0	Agnew was a fresh face in national politics.
0:32.0	He wasn't much known at all outside of Maryland
0:35.0	where he had just been elected governor.
0:37.0	Heck, he wasn't even all that well known in Maryland.
0:39.0	But he was an effective politician.
0:41.0	His quick rise out of nowhere was thanks in large part to his
0:45.0	my kind of man, personal image.
0:47.0	He was the son of Greek immigrants.
0:49.0	He was an outsider.
0:52.0	He forged a reputation as a straight shooter,
0:54.0	hard work, honesty, integrity.
0:57.0	Well, I like him because he's honest.
1:00.0	He's really honest.
1:01.0	One thing that I can definitely say is,
1:03.0	Ted had you would make a perfect administrator
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