| On October 11, 1973, Spiro T. Agnew became the first American vice president to resign from office because of criminal charges. He was charged with extortion, tax evasion, and bribery. He pleaded no contest to tax evasion and was fined $10,000. Agnew’s disgrace added to the weight of the problems faced by United States President Richard Nixon. The 1972 break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington, D.C., caused Nixon to resign from office less than a year after Agnew resigned. |
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