On this day in 1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned from office after being charged with federal income tax evasion. Agnew was the Vice President for Richard Milhaus Nixon. Things worked out well, if Agnew had kept his nose he would have become POTUS when Nixon resigned in 1974. The nation was in much better hands with Jerry Ford who replaced Agnew as VP then they would have with Agnew. Spiro Agnew was the Governor of Maryland when Dick Nixon selected him in 1968 to be his running mate. Agnew was a law and order candidate. Ted Agnew is the only Vice President to resign due to criminal charges. Ted Agnew died in 1996 at the age of 77.