Richard Nixon 1973 Typed Letter Signed as President - To His Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew Who Resigned Just Weeks Earlier
37th President. Historically significant typed letter signed “RN” AS PRESIDENT, October 30, 1973, to Spiro T. Agnew, his former Vice President who had resigned from office in disgrace just 20 days earlier. Although their relationship had been contentious throughout their time in office together, Nixon reaches out to Agnew with a delicate touch and offers him a memento from his tenure as VP, in full:
During the years that you served as Vice President, one of your greatest services to the Nation was to help clarify the great issues before it, and to help lead the American people to a deeper and better understanding of those issues.
The chair you occupied across from mine at the Cabinet table is, to me, a symbol of the strength and wisdom you brought to that task as well as to the highest councils of the Government itself. Therefore, I particularly wanted to make a personal gift of that chair, which I hope you will take as a token of both friendship and esteem.
I am confident that the same strength and wisdom will help you through these difficult days, and I am also sure that in the years to come the knowledge that you were right about the great issues will maintain that strength and vindicate that wisdom.
In very fine condition.
Accompanied by original White House envelope, which was not postally used suggesting hand delivery of this important letter.
Agnew resigned as Vice President on October 10, 1973, after the U.S. Justice Department uncovered widespread evidence of his political corruption while in Maryland, but also including allegations that his practice of accepting bribes had continued into his tenure as U.S. vice president. It was a plea-bargain deal that Agnew had to accept - surrender the vice presidency in exchange for his freedom.
37th President. Historically significant typed letter signed “RN” AS PRESIDENT, October 30, 1973, to Spiro T. Agnew, his former Vice President who had resigned from office in disgrace just 20 days earlier. Although their relationship had been contentious throughout their time in office together, Nixon reaches out to Agnew with a delicate touch and offers him a memento from his tenure as VP, in full:
During the years that you served as Vice President, one of your greatest services to the Nation was to help clarify the great issues before it, and to help lead the American people to a deeper and better understanding of those issues.
The chair you occupied across from mine at the Cabinet table is, to me, a symbol of the strength and wisdom you brought to that task as well as to the highest councils of the Government itself. Therefore, I particularly wanted to make a personal gift of that chair, which I hope you will take as a token of both friendship and esteem.
I am confident that the same strength and wisdom will help you through these difficult days, and I am also sure that in the years to come the knowledge that you were right about the great issues will maintain that strength and vindicate that wisdom.
In very fine condition.
Accompanied by original White House envelope, which was not postally used suggesting hand delivery of this important letter.
Agnew resigned as Vice President on October 10, 1973, after the U.S. Justice Department uncovered widespread evidence of his political corruption while in Maryland, but also including allegations that his practice of accepting bribes had continued into his tenure as U.S. vice president. It was a plea-bargain deal that Agnew had to accept - surrender the vice presidency in exchange for his freedom.
37th President. Historically significant typed letter signed “RN” AS PRESIDENT, October 30, 1973, to Spiro T. Agnew, his former Vice President who had resigned from office in disgrace just 20 days earlier. Although their relationship had been contentious throughout their time in office together, Nixon reaches out to Agnew with a delicate touch and offers him a memento from his tenure as VP, in full:
During the years that you served as Vice President, one of your greatest services to the Nation was to help clarify the great issues before it, and to help lead the American people to a deeper and better understanding of those issues.
The chair you occupied across from mine at the Cabinet table is, to me, a symbol of the strength and wisdom you brought to that task as well as to the highest councils of the Government itself. Therefore, I particularly wanted to make a personal gift of that chair, which I hope you will take as a token of both friendship and esteem.
I am confident that the same strength and wisdom will help you through these difficult days, and I am also sure that in the years to come the knowledge that you were right about the great issues will maintain that strength and vindicate that wisdom.
In very fine condition.
Accompanied by original White House envelope, which was not postally used suggesting hand delivery of this important letter.
Agnew resigned as Vice President on October 10, 1973, after the U.S. Justice Department uncovered widespread evidence of his political corruption while in Maryland, but also including allegations that his practice of accepting bribes had continued into his tenure as U.S. vice president. It was a plea-bargain deal that Agnew had to accept - surrender the vice presidency in exchange for his freedom.