Well-known for quotes like "if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all" and for his William Safire-written attack on reporters as "an effete corps of impudent snobs" and "nattering nabobs of negativism," he was fined ten thousand dollars for taking bribes as governor of Maryland.
His books include a thriller called The Canfield Decision, in which a radical Jewish group teams up with the Iranians to destroy d?ente, and a 1980 memoir entitled Go Quietly... or Else. His political career began through the connections of Judge Herbert Moser, a supermarket executive, and another judge, E. Lester Barrett, influenced his decision to turn Republican. He defeated a segregationist named George Mahoney in his state's 1966 gubernatorial race. Well-known for quotes like "if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all" and for his William Safire-written attack on reporters as "an effete corps of impudent snobs" and "nattering nabobs of negativism," he was fined ten thousand dollars for taking bribes as governor of Maryland. FTP, name the man who resigned as Richard Nixon's vice president in 1973.
His books include a thriller called The Canfield Decision, in which a radical Jewish group teams up with the Iranians to destroy d?ente, and a 1980 memoir entitled Go Quietly... or Else.
Spiro Theodore Agnew