Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1968. The Republican ticket of former Vice President Richard Nixon and Maryland governor Spiro Agnew defeated the Democratic ticket
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Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968
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Lyndon B. Johnson, the incumbent president in 1968, whose second and only full term expired at noon on January 20, 1969
Spiro Agnew
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Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the
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Downtown Baltimore around the time of Agnew's birth
The courthouse at Towson, in Baltimore County, Maryland
A Civil Rights march, September 1963, protesting the Alabama church bombings. Agnew opposed such marches and demonstrations.