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25th Amendment
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. This is what happened with Gerald Ford becoming president -
Agnew resignation letter
Spiro Agnew sent a letter to Nixon on October 11th, 1973 confirming that he would be resigning from vice presidency and that though its not what he wanted to do, he thought it would be in his best interest. -
Reason for resignation for Agnew
Nixon's first Vice president, Agnew, he formally resigned from vice presidency because he got caught with a single felony charge on tax aviation, he thought It would be better to fully resign -
Fords nomination for Vice President
At 9:06 pm, on October 12th, 1973, a speech went out from the president making it public of Agnew's resignation and that Gerald Ford would be taking over as vice president. -
Votes on fords nominations
This was when Gerald Ford was being voted on to become vice president, and he won 97 percent of the countries population for vice president with yeas, only 3 percent voted nay. -
Nixon's resignation letter
On August 9th, 1974, Richard Nixon wrote a letter fully resigning from office, the thing about the letter is that is was very short, like only a sentence long just saying that he was resigning. -
Ford sworn into presidency
On august 9th, 1974 Gerald Ford was sworn into presidency after Nixon's resignation -
Ford Pardons Nixon
Ford felt it was in best interest to pardon Nixon instead of let Congress take legal charges on him. Ford got a different perspective on Nixon at the end of his resignation and that may have lead to the decision to pardon him