Spiro Agnew countered that the investigation was a “witch hunt.” The investigators were “liberals and biased.” Loudly, Agnew argued that the allegations were false, politically motivated and a sitting vice president could not be indicted.
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CONNECTIONS: A brief history of fake news
From editors blatantly trying to sell papers by any means to columnists courting readers to publishers trying to shape national policy, the people believe the fake news as readily as they believe the truth.
CONNECTIONS: Nostalgia for trappings of royalty
Genuine or ersatz, the desire for a coat of arms was rampant in this country. A hundred years after ejecting the king, apparently, we wanted it back.
CONNECTIONS: Yes, Virginia, there are Santa Clauses
“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see.”
— Editor of the New York Sun in 1897