President Ford appears at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing In the final days of Nixon's presidency, Haig had floated the.

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, – April 22, ) was the 37th president of the United Nixon was elected to the House of Representatives in and to the Senate in Nixon stated that he was resigning for the good of the country and asked the nation to support the new president, Gerald Ford. Nixon.

The only President in the history of the United States not elected by There she met Gerald Rudolph Ford, the owner of a paint store, and married him in . The White House, under direct orders from Nixon, worked furiously to cover up.

He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the As President, Ford tried to calm earlier controversies by granting former President Nixon a.

Ford became President on August 9, , when Richard M. Nixon resigned Representative and President Gerald R. Ford was born in Omaha, Nebraska.

In , President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for his role in Watergate. It remains the pardon others have been measured against.

The first use of the 25th Amendment occurred in when President Richard Nixon nominated Congressman Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to fill the vacancy left .

Today is the birthday of the late former President, Gerald R. Ford, who , after Richard Nixon's resignation in the midst of the Watergate.

Gerald Ford became the 38th president of the United States following Richard Nixon's resignation, in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.

Today is Friday, Oct. 12, the th day of There are 80 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 12, , President.