The Fire of Agnew | The Nixon Era
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This episode of Whistlestop revisits October 15, 1969 and the divisive words of then Vice President Spiro Agnew.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America's Presidential carnival.
Join Slate Plus for full, ad-free access to Whistlestop and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Whistlestop show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whistlestopplus to get access wherever you listen.
Podcast production and edit by Jocelyn Frank. Research by Brian Rosenwald.
Email: whistlestop@slate.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together. |
| 0:07.0 | Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit, and access |
| 0:11.5 | recent chrome tabs across both devices. |
| 0:14.0 | The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together. |
| 0:18.0 | Available on Sky Mobile. |
| 0:20.0 | Bluetooth and internet connection required. |
| 0:22.0 | You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. |
| 0:27.0 | The Samsung Galaxy Buds Effie are the perfect partner for your smartphone. |
| 0:32.0 | Stay immersed thanks to active noise. are the perfect partner for your smartphone. |
| 0:32.6 | Stay immersed thanks to active noise cancellation with AI technology that filters out |
| 0:37.9 | unwanted background noise. |
| 0:39.7 | Listen to your audio in comfort hour after hour with the new wing-tip design and easy touch |
| 0:45.2 | controls that make changing settings a breeze. That's a lot to love for just 99 pounds |
| 0:51.2 | RRP, the new Galaxy Bud Zefee, by now at Samsung.com. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, season two, a podcast about the presidency. I'm John Dickerson of |
| 1:05.0 | face the nation. In the fall of 1969 a thesaurus was weaponized in the office of |
| 1:11.0 | the vice presidency and from its pages issued a torrent of ten cent |
| 1:16.1 | words a fountain of effluence aimed at the elite the effete and the seat of the |
| 1:22.2 | ample comfortable behinds of smug professors, journalists, hippies, |
| 1:26.4 | communists, and American sellouts. Spiro T Agnew struck these hammer blows of acerbic truth. He was a man skilled in the |
| 1:37.0 | acerbiline aggregation of Appalachians and alliteration. He or his speechwriters anyway spoke of the Nattering Nabobs of Negativism who have |
| 1:47.3 | formed their own 4-H club the hopeless hysterical hypochondriacs of history. They called Agnew Nixons-Nixen, and about six months into the first term, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

