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This amendment refined the process for declaring a president incapable of fulfilling his duties of office.
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As you are aware, the accusations against me cannot be resolved without a long, divisive and debilitating struggle in the Congress and in the courts. I have concluded that, painful as it is to me and to my family, it is in the best interest of the nation that I relinquish the vice presidency.
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Due to the resignation of Spiro Gerald Ford humbly accepted the nomination for the vice presidency.
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Gerald Ford won the vote by a landslide.
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President Richard Nixon officially resigns from being the president of The United Sates due to other conflicts.
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President Richard Nixon resigns from office which allows the newly elected Vice President Gerald Ford to be sworn in as the new President.
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On October 17, 1974, President Gerald Ford explains to Congress why he had chosen to pardon his predecessor, Richard Nixon, rather than allow Congress to pursue legal action against the former president.
