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1 day ago · He only spent a year as VP before the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's impending impeachment trial resulted in his resignation in October 1974. Ford said in his acceptance speech: ...
1 day ago · He only spent a year as VP before the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's impending impeachment trial resulted in his resignation in October 1974. Ford said in his acceptance speech: "I assume the presidency under extraordinary circumstances… This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hearts."
12 hours ago · Ford became US president in 1974 after Nixon, facing impeachment and humiliation over the Watergate scandal, resigned as Commander-in-Chief. Ford himself recognised the tenuous situation for the country in which he took power. Gerald Ford, after his swearing in, declared that America’s ’long national nightmare’ was at an end.
1 hour ago · Ford ascended to the presidency when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which badly damaged the Republican Party and its electoral prospects. Ford promised to continue Nixon's political agenda and govern as a moderate Republican, causing considerable backlash from the conservative wing of his party.
1 day ago · President Richard Nixon had resigned just two years earlier over the Watergate scandal. And Americans were disillusioned by the war in Vietnam. Support Local News
1 day ago · However, following the Watergate scandal involving President Richard Nixon, many people were distrustful of the Washington establishment and were open to voting for an unknown outsider, especially one who promised to clean up the US capital.
1 hour ago · The _unveilingjiess_ of the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The _unveilingjiess_ of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment led to new ethical guidelines for medical research. The _unveilingjiess_ of the Enron scandal led to new regulations for corporate accounting.
