Podcast
Bag Man
Hosted by Heather McQuistion · EN
Is it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember? To have one of the most brazen political bribery scandals in American history play out before the country while nobody’s paying attention? In her first original podcast, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow goes back 45 years to dig into a story that got overshadowed in its day. There’s intrigue. Corruption. Envelopes of cash delivered to the White House. It’s a story that’s not well known, but it probably should be. Especially today. Bag Man. A Rachel Maddow podcast from MSNBC. Launching October 30th. Subscribe now.
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7 - Episode 7: You Can't Fire Me -- I Quit
Dec 4, 201800:39:20Tap to summarizeDisgraced Vice President Spiro T. Agnew officially becomes a private citizen and addresses the nation one last time... as a convicted criminal.
Transcribe →6 - Episode 6: A Disappearing Act
Nov 27, 201800:44:27Tap to summarizeNo description available
Transcribe →5 - Episode 5: Double-Header
Nov 20, 201800:33:02Tap to summarizeVice President Spiro Agnew attempts a last-ditch effort to survive
Transcribe →4 - Episode 4: Turn It Off
Nov 13, 201800:38:46Tap to summarizeAfter learning that his own Justice Department is investigating his crimes, Vice President Spiro Agnew embarks on a secret, behind-the-scenes effort... to obstruct justice. To use his power inside the White House to interfere with the investigation and shut it down. It’s a scheme that involves President Nixon himself, members of Nixon's inner circle, and it has never been known to the prosecutors investigating the case... even now, 45 years later.
Transcribe →3 - Episode 3: Hang In There, Baby
Nov 6, 201800:33:48Tap to summarizeWith the criminal investigation of him now public, Vice President Spiro Agnew launches a bold counter-attack to survive. An unprecedented assault... on his own Justice Department that's investigating him. And the reporters now covering his case. And Agnew gets back-up in that effort from his legion of hardcore supporters across the country and in Congress.
Transcribe →2 - Episode 2: Crawling In
Oct 29, 201800:30:14Tap to summarizeWith the Watergate scandal gripping the nation, and President Richard Nixon on the verge of going down, a small team of federal prosecutors in Baltimore discover a bombshell that will rock a nation already on the edge. The Vice President of the United States— right at the height of Watergate—has been conducting a secret bribery and extortion operation… from inside the White House itself. And only they know it.
Transcribe →1 - Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret
Oct 29, 201800:25:44Tap to summarizeHe was brash. Politically incorrect. An “outsider” political candidate who rose to the White House, out of nowhere, with a reputation as a “counter-puncher.” But Vice President Spiro Agnew was also something else… an active criminal whose secrets were about to be exposed. What happens when a “counter-puncher” in the White House suddenly sees his political future directly threatened by investigators inside his own Justice Department?
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