Watergate and Agnew - The White House Complex

Spiro Agnew was being pursued by the Department of Justice and the Attorney General Elliot Richardson because he had been taking what were considered to be payoffs from various figures in Maryland. The other irony, as you both know, is that after Agnew resigned, Nixon's first choice for vice president was John Connolly, former governor of Texas,. Former secretary of the treasury under Nixon. As it turned out, Connolly was indicted in a milk fund scandal in August of 1974, July of 1974. So if Connolly had been chosen as Nixon's choice as vice president, on the day he took office, which would have been August 9, 1974, the new president of the United States would