It is argued that Ford's pardon of Nixon played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against Jimmy Carter.

Polls showed a majority of Americans disapproved of the pardon, and Ford's public-approval ratings tumbled afterward.

While he jousted with Nixon over racial policies and his Supreme Court nominations, including his choice of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., of South Carolina, Scott supported much of Nixon's domestic agenda, applauded the president's conduct of foreign affairs, backed his Vietnam policy, praised his invasion of Cambodia, publicly proclaimed Nixon's innocence during the Watergate scandal, and endorsed President Gerald Ford's pardon of his predecessor.

The U. S. Senate elections of 1974 were held in the wake of the Watergate scandal, Richard M. Nixon's resignation from the presidency, and Gerald Ford's subsequent pardon of Nixon.

The most recent incident widely described as a " corrupt bargain " was Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon, following the resignation of the disgraced former president.

The critics claim that Ford's pardon was a quid pro quo for Nixon's resignation, which elevated Ford to the presidency.

Gerald Ford's 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon was widely described as a " corrupt bargain " by critics of the disgraced former president.

These critics claim that Ford's pardon was quid pro quo for Nixon's resignation, which elevated Ford to the presidency.

He replaced Jerald terHorst, who resigned in the wake of President Ford's pardon of former president Richard Nixon.

Some commentators have argued that pardoning Nixon contributed to President Ford's loss of the presidential election of 1976.

of State Kissinger, Rep. Ford and President Richard Nixon meet on October 13, 1973, regarding Ford's upcoming appointment to Vice-President.

Thruston Morton was the brother of Rogers Clark Ballard Morton, who represented Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 through 1971, when he became Secretary of the Interior in the administration of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford and Secretary of Commerce under Ford before heading Ford's re-election campaign in 1976.

Zinn argues that the resignation of Richard Nixon and the exposure of crimes committed by the CIA and FBI during the decade were done by the government in order to regain support for the government from the American people without making fundamental changes to the system ; according to Zinn, Gerald Ford's presidency continued the same basic policies of the Nixon administration.

As for Griffith, in Birth of a Nation there are just eight cuts to reverse-angle shots in the scene in Ford's Theatre, while elsewhere throughout the two-and-a-half hour length of this film there are only four more true reverse-angle cuts.

The original version was also featured in the 1978 film Superman, heard playing on a car radio just prior to Glenn Ford's final scene in the film ; Ford, as noted earlier, had starred in Blackboard Jungle.

Today, the Station stands just two-doors from one of the city's oldest home ( rebuilt in 1908 ), which still boasts some of John B. Ford's original plate glass works.

When bombarded with questions from our group on what inspired his thinking, he just laughed and said he learned it all from Henry Ford's book.

Ford's career winning percentage cannot be attributed just to being on a good team: The Yankees were 1, 486-1, 027 during his 16 years ; without his 236-106, they had 1, 250 wins and 921 losses, for a won-loss percentage of. 576.

The Express and Savana currently hold 44. 8 % of the full-size van market in the United States, just behind rival Ford's E-Series.

The Tempo was Ford's first compact car downsizing, just seven years after GM downsized its cars in 1976 for the 1977 model year ( some of them in 1978 or later ).

The ' Old Fox ' Harry Firth was the head of the HDT and would prove to be just as much as a thorn in Ford's side as he had been the founding father for Ford's Bathurst-bred Cortina / Falcon program.

The entry-level car was called just " Meteor ," replacing Ford's " Mainline " series.

The election night results suggests that it would have been unlikely that strategic voting would have prevented the eventual outcome because the combined vote for Pantalone and Smitherman total exceeded Ford's vote by only just under 2000 votes — victory for Smitherman would have required nearly unanimous support from Pantalone's 95, 000 supporters.

On April 14, 1865, just days after the end of the war, Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth during the play Our American Cousin.

With the intent of liquidating the firm's assets, Ford's financial backers William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and equipment before selling them.

At the time, the Chicago Tribunes movie critic, Michael Wilmington, called Hell's Hinges " Hart's acknowledged masterpiece ," " perhaps the finest movie Western made before John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach ," and " as emotionally powerful as any American film of the teens, except for the masterpieces of D. W. Griffith and Erich Von Stroheim.

Prior to public service, McNamara was one of the " Whiz Kids " who helped rebuild Ford Motor Company after World War II, and briefly served as Ford's President before becoming Secretary of Defense.

Like the Capri before it, the Merkur was Ford's attempt at selling a European car in the North American market.

In a narrative beginning before the war and ending after the armistice, Ford's project is to situate an unimaginable cataclysm within a social, moral and psychological complexity.

At the age of 15, Lima finished first in Ford's " Supermodel of Brazil " competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford " Supermodel of the World " competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City.

Finally, in the climax of the film, Lincoln delivers a conflation of famous words from the Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865-just moments before being assassinated.

* The Old South: An Address Delivered by Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill, at Ford's Grand Opera House, on Memorial Day, June 6, 1887, before the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland.

John Wilkes Booth appeared at Ford's Theatre, Washington, on March 18, 1865, in the play ' The Apostate ' which was performed as a benefit for John McCullough, less than a month before he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

It ends at a slightly earlier point than the radio episode, after Ford's line " he might want to read us some of his poetry first ", and on a cliffhanger that Arthur and Ford are about to be discovered in a Vogon storeroom, but before the Vogon poetry is actually read.

Shortly before his death, McGrath played a bartender in the picture The War Wagon, the character Ned Martin in Gunfight in Abilene, and Ballard Weeks in Glenn Ford's, The Last Challenge ( all three films released in 1967 ).

Romulan-fusion Klingons also exist ( Ford's Klingons contacted the Romulans before humans ) and possibly other hybrids ( such as with the Orions, whose space abuts both the Empire and the Federation ).

Dr. Ford's recollection was that Dr. Kelley did in fact coin the phrase " Wizard of Oz Paradigm " but that the technique had been employed in at least two separate studies before Dr. Kelley had started conducting studies at the Johns Hopkins Telecommunications Lab.

* In 1974, during the four-month period between Gerald Ford's succession to the Presidency and the confirmation of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.

Mantle and former teammate Whitey Ford were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame together in 1974, Mantle's first year of eligibility, Ford's second.

President Gerald Ford's golden retriever Liberty was purchased in 1974 from Avis Friberg who lived in the town.

In essence, this generation was a continuation of the 1974 – 76 Ford Elite, Ford's successful first attempt at competing in the market created by the Pontiac Grand Prix and Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

The " regular " Galaxie 500 continued below the LTD as Ford's mid-level full-size model from 1965 until its demise at the end of the 1974 model year.

By 1974, the personal luxury market segment became highly competitive and the Ford Thunderbird was the heaviest and most expensive against a tested of competitors that included the Riviera, Toronado, Grand Prix, Cougar, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, AMC's Oleg Cassini Matador, and even Ford's own Torino Elite.

Wendell Ford's election to the United States Senate | U. S. Senate in 1974 elevated Carroll to governor

Governor Ford's allies encouraged Carroll to run for the U. S. Senate in 1974, but Carroll had already set his sights on the governorship.

It originally was presented at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C. from November 1-17, 1974, then produced by the Center Theatre Group and staged by Robert Greenwald at the Mark Taper Forum from April 4 through May 3, 1975.

One notable exception was when Nelson Rockefeller was named Gerald Ford's Vice President in 1974.

On the day of Ford's succession to the presidency, August 9, 1974, he provided commentary for the inauguration.

Robert S. Ingersoll, during a meeting of Ford's National Security Council, 1974