TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 4 P51

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 4 P51 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | FORD GERALD RUDOLPH 489 presidential election Ford could be counted on to support vigorously Nixon s foreign and domestic programs in Congress. When it became clear in 1973 that Vice President Agnew s legal and ethical problems would force him out of the Nixon White House the president turned to Ford as a logical replacement. The twenty-fifth amendment to the . Constitution allows the president to nominate a vice president in the event of a vacancy. Ford was a plausible choice because of his solid track record in the House his popularity with Congress and the public and his loyalty to Nixon. After Agnew s resignation Ford publicly accepted Nixon s offer and was confirmed by a majority vote of both houses of the . Congress. He was sworn in during a joint session of Congress on December 6 1973. Ford knew that he was joining a doomed scandal-plagued administration and that in all likelihood he would become president. For eight months he performed his vice presidential duties and waited as the Watergate investigators closed in on Nixon. With Nixon s resignation inevitable Ford prepared what he hoped would be a reassuring speech to his weary country. On August 9 1974 the day Nixon resigned and Ford was sworn in Ford spoke to the nation on television telling citizens that the . system worked and that our long national nightmare is over. At the beginning of Ford s term as president members of Nixon s cabinet including SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER agreed to stay on in the interest of continuity. Ford appointed Nelson A. Rockefeller former governor of New York to serve as his vice president. As the transition from Nixon to Ford was made key Nixon appointees departed and the Ford administration floundered. The nation s economy was a pressing problem with both inflation and unemployment running high. To combat inflation Ford proposed a voluntary program Whip Inflation Now WIN which was neither an economic nor a popular success. Without mandatory controls to .

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