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No doubt Nixon was an anti-semite, but his defenders always pointed to the prominence of Kissinger in Nixon's admin to pretend he wasn't. Nixon was the kind of anti-semite who'd wink and nod his support to open nazi types, and keep his hands clean. He'd whisper "I'm with you" to them, he wouldn't bellow it out like G. L. Rockwell. We only knew about his constant anti-semitic slur spewing because the Watergate tapes came out. He wanted the antisemitic nazis' support, but kept his desire for their support on the down low, to be able to get broader more mainstream support for himself.
Here's what Agnew actually DID do, apart from the letter:
"... In 1976 he published a novel, The Canfield Decision, about an American vice president's troubled relationship with his president. The book received mixed reviews, but was commercially successful, with Agnew receiving $100,000 for serialization rights alone.[182] The book landed Agnew in controversy; his fictional counterpart, George Canfield, refers to "Jewish cabals and Zionist lobbies" and their hold over the American media, a charge which Agnew, while on a book tour, asserted was true in real life.[183] This brought complaints from Seymour Graubard, of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and a rebuke from President Ford, then campaigning for re-election.[184] "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew