Spiro Agnew was a literal laughing-stock when the ... new investigation that had nothing at all to do with Watergate: TIM BAKER (FMR. FEDERAL PROSECUTOR): It was based solely on, um, it was ...

Baker Jr. was assistant U.S. attorney for ... Nixon’s vice president, Spiro T. Agnew. On Oct. 10, 1973, Agnew entered a plea to a criminal tax felony for failure to report the hundreds of ...