Diane wrote:JTF, I didn't know his real name was Teddy. Spiro seemed so appropriate for a career spiraling out of control.
Equus, was that William Safire (nattering nabobs of negativism)?
His name was Spiro Theodore Agnew.
His first elected position was President of the P.T.A. at Loch Raven Elementary School, in Baltimore County.
From there he went to Baltimore County Council, and then to Baltimore County Executive, and then to Governor of Maryland, then Vice President. Friends and family called him Teddy, or Ted, Nixon called him Teddy.