They ranged from the line about Mickey Mouse wearing a Spiro Agnew watch to the unkindest cut of all — that he was the only Greek since Achilles to make a heel a campaign issue. Of late ...

In 1966, I stood outside my elementary school in Maryland, waving a sign for Spiro Agnew. He was running for governor against a segregationist who campaigned on the slogan, “Your Home Is Your Ca ...