Examples of Gerald Ford in the following topics:
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- Gerald Ford became president of the United States after Richard Nixon resigned, serving from 1974 to 1977.
- When President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 over the controversy of the Watergate scandal, Vice President Gerald Ford assumed the presidency; this made him the only person to assume the presidency without having been previously voted into either the presidential or vice presidential office.
- The economy was a great concern during the Ford administration.
- They claimed Ford's pardon was granted in exchange for Nixon's resignation, which elevated Ford to the Presidency.
- Gerald and Betty Ford with the President and First Lady Pat Nixon after President Nixon nominated Ford to be Vice President, October 13, 1973.
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- Gerald Ford was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977.
- Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and prior to this the fortieth Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974.
- The economy was a great concern during the Ford administration .
- The federal budget ran a deficit every year Ford was President.
- President Gerald Ford meets with his Cabinet on June 29, 1975.
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- The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon and subsequent inauguration of Vice President Gerald Ford into the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
- The contest for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates: Gerald Ford, incumbent president and leader of the GOP's moderate wing, and Ronald Reagan, the leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term governor of California.
- This position often resulted in favorable publicity for Ford.
- President Gerald Ford and Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter meet at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia to debate domestic policy during the first of the three Ford-Carter Debates.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of Ford and Carter in the 1976 election.
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- His successor, Gerald Ford, was unable to solve the pressing problems the United States faced or erase the stain of Watergate.
- At his inauguration in January 1977, President Jimmy Carter began his speech by thanking outgoing president Gerald Ford for all he had done to “heal” the scars left by Watergate.
- American gratitude had not been great enough to return Ford to the Oval Office, but enthusiasm for the new president was not much greater in the new atmosphere of disillusionment with political leaders.
- Summarize the controversial policies enacted under Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan
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- Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in a secret memo to President Gerald Ford that failure in bombing Vietnam was imminent.
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- (Gerald Ford, who was from Michigan, became president following Richard Nixon's resignation, but was not elected as president, and lost to Georgia's Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election. )
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- He would be the first president to resign, and his successor, Gerald Ford, would become the only president not elected to the office of president or vice president.
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- Reagan's victory was the result of a combination of dissatisfaction with the presidential leadership of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in the 1970s and the growth of the New Right.
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- One related measure approved by Congress during the presidency of Gerald Ford, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, gave presidents the authority to deregulate prices of domestic oil, and Carter exercised this option on July 1, 1979, as a means of encouraging both oil production and conservation.
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- Democratic President Jimmy Carter successfully campaigned as a Washington "outsider" critical of President Gerald Ford, as well as the Democratically-controlled U.S.