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September 29th, 1973.

The vice president of the United States,

flew to California to give a speech.

It was a speech that he knew he would be giving

to some of his most die-hard fans,

people who would follow him till the end of the earth.

And that was crucial at that moment in his political life,

because just a few weeks earlier,

the Wall Street Journal had been first to report

that that same vice president, Spiro Agnew,

he was under federal criminal investigation

on potential felony corruption charges,

bribery, extortion, tax evasion, a whole bunch of stuff.

This was very shocking front page news at the time.

It was very damaging news for obvious reasons

to the vice president, and he was just completely enraged

about it.

So he flew out to California, September 29th, 1973,

to give a talk to his most rabid supporters.

It was the national conference of Republican women.

And these women were hardcore activists

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