One Minute Chronicle: The Real Reason Why Spiro Agnew Resigned

While flames were engulfing the Nixon presidency, Vice President Spiro Agnew (1918 - 1996) resigned his office pleading nolo contendre on October 10, 1973. The real reason for his departure is much more disturbing.

 

The ostensible occasion for Agnew's resignation was charges of income tax evasion on bribe money he accepted as governor of Maryland in 1967, which by today's standards was a petty crime involving a mere 100,000 or so in bribes, although later charges increased the amount to over a quarter of a million dollars.

 

So the fast rising star of Agnew was an exhausted nova within 10 years of his discovery in 1962 by Nelson Rockefeller who was a king maker in the Republican party. Agnew had risen from complete obscurity to Vice President within a span under 10 years. Clearly someone was behind his rapid ascent.

 

Yet Agnew was probably oblivious to the machinations swirling about him. Wherever Rockefeller was, crime, murder, and corruption were not far behind. More than likely Agnew was groomed as a sacrificial lamb in the power politics which were to overcome him in the Nixon presidency. Indeed, Nixon himself was a Rockefeller stooge who would fall victim to the same conspiracies which finished Agnew's career.

 

According to Agnew's biography, the real reason for his resignation was a murder threat from Nixon's chief of staff Alexander Haig, a major player in the political wars raging in Washington since the coup of 1963.

 

This threat explains the reason for the quick and quiet departure of Agnew. He could have easily stonewalled, dissembled, obfuscated until the cows came home, but those tactics become untenable when a murderer threatens you with murder.

 

We do not believe that Nixon was behind the threat - a resignation of a vice president during a political crisis is the last thing a president needed, Nixon's remarks about his safety being insured by the threat of an Agnew presidency notwithstanding.

 

Haig was the Rockefeller - Bush Crime Syndicate henchman hired to eliminate not only Agnew, but Nixon as well. Haig was indeed the Deep Throat of Watergate fame who proved to be Nixon's undoing.

Copyright 2014 Tony Bonn. All rights reserved.

Did Nixon Murder Johnson?

Writing in Veterans Today, columnist Trowbridge Ford suggests that Richard Nixon was behind the murder of President Lyndon Johnson.

 

While we had accepted the conventional reports that Johnson died of natural causes stemming from his long battle with heart disease, we had received reports that we had been lied to yet again. Following up on the leads, we came across Ford's assessment.

 

Johnson died unexpectedly 2 days after the second inauguration of Richard Nixon, on January 22, 1973. According to Trowbridge, substantial evidence exists that the death was not from natural causes, nor an accident.

 

The motivation for the alleged murder was to keep Johnson silent about the November Surprise for which Spiro Agnew was a central player. The Nixon campaign had persuaded South Vietnamese president Nguyen van Thieu to decline the peace terms brokered by Johnson in the waning days of his presidency. Thieu accepted the Nixon offer which resulted in yet another expansion of the war into Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.

 

In the meantime, Nixon had obtained evidence that Johnson had ordered his 1968 campaign plane bugged, a suspicion he tried to get former FBI Assistant Director Cartha DeLoach to confirm. Nixon failed to obtain the corroboration he sought, but thought he had enough to blackmail Democrat senators from pursuing the establishment of the Ervin Committee to investigate Watergate.

 

Nixon's attempts to quiet Johnson on both issues failed, especially when the evidence about the plane bugging did not materialize. Johnson was livid when he found out about the sabotage of the Vietnamese peace treaty, threatening to expose some of its details.

 

The Nixon White House entered panic mode, looking for an agent to silence permanently the former president. The services of CIA murderer Sydney Gottlieb were solicited to deliver the lethal blow. Gottlieb's specialty was murder through drugs, a practice he developed over the decades when murdering foreign heads of state of whom the CIA did not approve, such as Patrice Lumumba of the Congo. But there were many more.

 

The intermediary, perhaps through some level of ignorance, was Nixon's personal physician Dr Walter Tkash, who also had been Eisenhower's personal physician. It just so happened that the drug Dilantin had become the miracle drug, something which Tkash had prescribed Nixon by the boatload, so to speak.

 

But Gottlieb went out of his way to strike up a friendship with Tkash, with the purpose of using him for yet another "Executive Action."

 

Although it is toxic and injurious to healthy people - having deleterious affects on Nixon's health - it is particularly lethal to people with coronary ailments such as those suffered by Johnson. Tkash accompanied Johnson back to Texas, and probably administered drug - either wittingly or unwittingly - to Johnson which induced his coma and death.

 

Gottlieb hurriedly retired from the agency shortly thereafter, but not before destroying mountains of evidence pertaining to MK-ULTRA and other barbaric projects of the CIA such as Project ORD.

 

The case presented by Ford seems plausible, having both motivation and means. If Johnson was murdered, it was well planned and quite believable given his history of heart problems. If Johnson was murdered, he got what he deserved due to his involvement and cover-up of the Kennedy assassination and sinking of the USS Liberty. As Johnson told The Atlantic Monthly in 1971, "We were running Murder, Inc. down there."

Reference
Trowbridge Ford, More Likely Nixon Saw Off LBJ Than He Masterminded JFK Assassination, Veterans Today, August 21, 2011, Accessed 3/8/2014

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