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Bonus Bag Man, Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret

2018/10/30
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Spiro Agnew was a relatively unknown politician from Maryland who rose quickly through the ranks, becoming Governor and then Vice President under Richard Nixon. His rise was marked by a reputation for honesty and integrity, despite being a political outsider.

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He was brash. Politically incorrect. An “outsider” political candidate who rose to the White House, out of nowhere, with a reputation as a “counter-puncher.” But Vice President Spiro Agnew was also something else… an active criminal whose secrets were about to be exposed. What happens when a “counter-puncher” in the White House suddenly sees his political future directly threatened by investigators inside his own Justice Department?

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