“Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!”

— Spiro Agnew

From speech delivered Nov 13, 1969 in Des Moines, Iowa

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39th Vice President of the United States 1918–1996

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