" Four years later, Gerald Ford would become president when President Richard Nixon resigned under the threat of impeachment.

Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, but resigned before completing it.

The second occurred 10 months later when Nixon resigned following the Watergate scandal and Ford assumed the Presidency.

Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.

However, before he resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford to the Vice Presidency in accordance with the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

Facing near-certain impeachment in the House of Representatives and a strong possibility of a conviction in the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974.

Since the film was released to theaters just a few months before Richard Nixon resigned as President, Coppola feels that audiences interpreted the film to be a reaction to both the Watergate scandal and its fall-out.

President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, resulting in Vice President Gerald Ford succeeding to the office of President.

When Nixon resigned in 1974, Buchanan briefly stayed on as special assistant under incoming President Gerald Ford.

In the General Election on November 5, 1974, Brown was elected Governor of California over California State Controller Houston I. Flournoy ; Republicans ascribed the loss to anti-Republican feelings from Watergate, the election being held only ninety days after President Richard Nixon resigned from office.

He was nominated for the office by President Gerald Ford, who had succeeded the resigned President Richard Nixon.

Woodward and Bernstein followed up with a second successful book on Watergate, entitled The Final Days ( Simon and Schuster 1976 ), covering in extensive depth the period from November 1973 until President Nixon resigned in August 1974.

After Volpe resigned to become Secretary of Transportation in the Nixon Administration, the plan was aborted by his successor in consideration of budgetary constraints and because the location was considered too far from the seat of power, the State House in Boston.

Had Nixon resigned without a sitting Vice President to succeed him, Albert would have become Acting President under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, which would have forced Albert to resign from the office of Speaker as well as the House.

Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, and the office of Vice President was once more left vacant when Ford was sworn in as President that day.

Senior cabinet ministers such as Provincial Secretary Harry Nixon resigned demanding a leadership convention and due to pressure from both provincial Liberals and the federal wing one was held in May 1943 at which Hepburn finally tendered his resignation as leader ( by telegram ) and Nixon was elected the new party leader, and was thus appointed as Premier.

When Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 because of a scandal separate from his Chief Justice bid, Nixon nominated Clement Haynsworth, a Southern jurist.

Bernstein and Woodward's discoveries led to further investigations of Nixon, and on August 9, 1974, amid hearings by the House Judiciary Committee, Nixon resigned in order to avoid facing impeachment.

In 1974, two years after the Watergate burglary and two months before Nixon resigned, Bernstein and Woodward released the book All the President's Men.

" v. Nixon Nixon resigned 15 days later.

In the face of a certain threat of removal from office through impeachment and conviction, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974.

Though Nixon resigned in 1974, the effects of the Act he passed had positive effects on America years after his resignation.

That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.

Since Election Day, Vice President Richard Nixon had virtually retired -- by his own wish -- from public view.

but never from Mr. Nixon, who looked on reporters with suspicion and distrust.

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1974 – President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

* 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.

In 1973, the students from Dabney House protested a presidential visit with a sign on the library bearing the simple phrase " Impeach Nixon ".

* Richard Nixon from Futurama

Two controversies arose during the campaign which tested him and his staff but were without effect on the campaign ; one involved a report that Nixon had improperly received funds from a secret trust – Nixon spoke out adroitly to avoid potential damage but the matter permanently alienated the two candidates.

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

A longer version of the video ( based on the " Hibakusha " mix ) included an introductory cut-up monologue by Richard Nixon taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign (" No .. firm diplomacy ... No .. peace for America and the world "), plus similar contributions from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and John F. Kennedy.

* Helen Douglas, Actress and Congresswomen from California defeated by Richard Nixon.

* 1971 – Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

Since Appleby stopped drawing Roger, the comic has run reprints of Robert Nixon strips from the 1980s.

Comparing the recovery from the 1981 – 82 recession ( 1983 – 1990 ) with the years between 1971 ( end of a recession ) and 1980 shows that the rate of growth of real GDP per capita averaged 2. 77 under Reagan and 2. 50 % under Nixon, Ford and Carter.

After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on NBC's Saturday Nights comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: " General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States.

In the same month of December 1971, when Richard Nixon sent a carrier battle group led by the into the Bay of Bengal in an attempt to intimidate India, the Soviet Union responded by sending a submarine armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to trail the US task force.

Soon after the Dolphins ' win in the AFC Championship Game, Shula received a phone call at his home from President Richard M. Nixon at 1: 30 in the morning.