U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.

Spiro Agnew

Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973

Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States under President Richard Nixon, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832.