Vice President John C. Calhoun’s term of office would have ended on March 4, 1833. But a senator from South Carolina died in December, 1932, so Calhoun resigned the vice presidency to take that more permanent job.
Until October 10, 1973 Calhoun was the only president or vice president who had ever resigned.
At the end of 1973, Vice President Agnew resigned and then President Nixon resigned, for totally different reasons.
What a coincidence!
Some of the media have always hated every president. But never in all history has the media ever universally hated a president the way they hated Richard Nixon.
They hated Agnew just as unaimously.
When Nixon and Agnew won election in 1968, Nixon assigned Agnew the job of denouncing the national media. In a famous press conference Agnew referred to them as “the nattering nabobs of the press.”
For Nixon to assign somebody as his hit man for the press was exactly like Al Capone playing “good gangster, bad gangster” and making one of his henchmen the BAD gangster. Anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the era knows that the one man the media hated as much as Nixon was Agnew.
The Washington Post finally GOT Nixon.
But remember, not one nationally elected official, meaning no president or VICE president, had EVER resigned under pressure before 1974.
No one but me has EVER mentioned the incredible coincidence that Agnew resigned JUST BEFORE Nixon did, and that no one ever said he had anything to do with the Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down.
No, Vice Presdient Agnew had an entirely different scandal that crought him down just at the right moment.
After intense investigation, which happened just as the Nixon impeachment became inevitable, it was discovered that Agnew had done some dirty deal when he was Governor of Maryland.
Now here’s another little tidbit: ALL officials in Maryland had done things like that. Everybody knew Maryland politics were as corrupt as Louisiana politics were when anti-Duke bumper stickers read, “Vote for the Crook, It’s IMPORTANT.”
Even James Edward’s supporters in Louisiana knew he was so crooked be made a snake look straight. ALL politics in Louisiana make a snake look straight.
And Agnew’s Maryland was famous for being even WORSE than Louisiana.
Maryland was so bad it was even in hot competition with New Jersey.
This was, and is, common knowledge.
So William Rusher referred to Agnew’s resignation as “a necessary preliminary” to Nixon’s removal from office. It would do the media no good to get Nixon our and thereby make Agnew president.
If the press had thrown its entire resources into investigating them, we would have had at least a dozen vice presidents resign from office.
So there are two possible expanations for the incredible coincidence of 1974.
Since this coincidence is NEVER discussed, the one that is accepted by default is that, by an amazing coincidence, the first president AND vice president to resign under fire in almost two hundred years of American history happened to resign in the same year.
The other resignation is the one I wrote in the first book I wrote in my own name: “Both Nixon and Agnew, whom the media hated as they had UNANIMOUSLY hated like no other president and vice president in American history, happened to resign in the same year and in exactly the right order.”
No one else discussed it quite this way. In fact, except for Rusher’s ironic comment, no one, liberal or respectable conservative, discussed it AT ALL.
If a respectable cosnervative, who is making a good living in the media, even SUGGESTS that the national media can be corrupt in the way that any other group with power and money can be corrupt, he will lose his money-making status as a “respectable” conservative.
All respectable conservatives must say, in chorus, “The media is biased, but they are all HONEST.”
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