Just to be clear, the establishment had to get rid of Agnew before getting rid of Nixon, so they dug up an old scandal to do so. They then installed one of the

Just to be clear, the establishment had to get rid of Agnew before getting rid of Nixon, so they dug up an old scandal to do so. They then installed one of their own, Ford. It's possible that Agnew never would have gotten the VP job in the first place had he not been fully compromised. (You see this mechanism time and again with politicians like Dennis Hastert and Joe Biden.) Agnew, an unreliable source perhaps, claimed to have been threatened. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1980/04/20/agnew-i-quit-because-i-feared-for-my-life/b3ebc16c-a0ab-4a41-ae4d-db76aa136ba9/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1980/04/20/a...