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	Spiro Agnew			17 of 41

As Richard Nixon's vice president, Spiro Agnew became a lightning rod for pubic opinion when he publicly and angrily denounced critics of U.S. war policy in Vietnam. Agnew resigned from the nation's second-highest office in 1973 after pleading nolo contendere ("no contest") to income tax evasion charges dating back to his tenure as Maryland's governor.