Spiro Agnew 10, 1973, after months of maintaining his innocence, Agnew pleaded no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion and resigned from office. He was replaced by House Minority Leader Gerald Ford. Agnew spent the remainder of his life quietly, rarely making public appearances. He wrote a novel and a memoir that both defended his actions. Spiro Agnew's father was born Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos in about 1877, in the Greek town of Gargalianoi. The family may have been involved in olive growing and been impoverished during a crisis in the industry in the 1890s. Anagnostopoulos emigrated to the United States
School integration in the United States desegregation was becoming more inflamed by the day. In March 1970, President Richard M. Nixon decided to take action. He declared Brown to be <nowiki>"right in both constitutional and human terms" and expressed his intention to enforce the law. He also put in place a process to carry out the court'</nowiki>s mandate. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and I (George Schultz, then secretary of labor) were asked to lead a cabinet committee to manage the transition to desegregated schools. The implementation of school integration policies did not just affect black and white students; in recent years, scholars have noted how