| Spiro Agnew
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Character Information
| Gender:
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Male ♂
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| Status:
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Deceased
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| Hair:
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Gray
Brown
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| Occupation:
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Former Vice President of the United States
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| First appearance:
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"Mother Simpson"
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Spiro Agnew was the Vice President of the United States under President Richard Nixon. Forced to resign in 1973 for tax evasion, he was replaced by Gerald Ford.
History[edit]
Spiro Agnew on a clock face.
A clock with a Spiro Agnew caricature clock face was used in the bombing of Mr. Burns' lab. Mona Simpson was one of the people who set the bomb.[1]
Spiro Agnew appeared as the subject of several satirical jokes in a Mad magazine special edition read by Bart Simpson and Milhouse at The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop. After seeing the repeated jokes, Milhouse assumed Agnew worked for the magazine because it criticized him so frequently.[2]
An animatronic of Spiro Agnew was seen in the Hall of Vice Presidents at Kissimmee St. Nick Theme Park and Resort.[3]
Shelves of Soylent Green had Agnew's name on them.[4]
When Homer was young and found a lamp with a mean genie inside, he asked his dad Abe if he could wish to become the world's yo-yo champion. Abe told his son that it wasn't a good idea because he might do a performance for President Nixon and accidentally kill him, which would result in Spiro Agnew becoming President. Homer then started imagining that very thing happening.[5]
Mr. Smithers listed Agnew as one of the Great Toadies in History for being "Nixon's chief fall guy".[6]
Appearances[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Episode – "Mother Simpson" (on clock face)
Comic story – Hurricane Nixon (mentioned)
Book – C. Montgomery Burns' Handbook of World Domination 
Spiro Agnew at Wikipedia
Spiro Agnew at the Infosphere
