Nixon was the only President to resign from office.
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President Nixon is known for being the only president in U.S. history to resign from office. He resigned in 1974 following the Watergate scandal, where his involvement in illegal activities, including the cover-up of a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, was revealed. No other president before or since Nixon has resigned from office.
Gerald Ford became president because he was vice-president when President Richard Nixon resigned that office. Interestingly, he was not elected vice-president but was appointed to this position after Spiro Agnew resigned.
No US president fought in the Vietnam War. Eisenhower and Kennedy were the president when the US first became involved. Johnson and Nixon were the president when the serious fighting took place.
Richard Nixon was accused of receiving bribes from other countries. This is illegal during your terms as the President and he was charged with treason, he resigned his title of Presidency.
Richard Nixon-- he resigned when he was found to be in the wrong
Richard Nixon is the only president who failed to complete his term for reason other than death. Nixon resigned voluntarily, but quite possibly would have been forced out if he had not resigned.
That President Nixon had been deeply involved in the cover-up. He referred to one meeting in which he and the president, along with other advisers, discussed strategies for continuing the deceit.
Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon chose Ford as his Vice President after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew. Ford then became President upon Nixon's resignation. The other vice-presidents who assumed the Presidency were elected as vice-presidents.
Thomas Jefferson served four years as vice-president and two terms as President. No other president that served two full terms was ever vice-president. Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge , Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson all served at least two years as vice president, became President and then were elected to one term of their own, but none served two full terms as President. Franklin Roosevelt ran for vice president but was not elected.
President Nixons effort to ease Cold War tensions was known as the Detente.
Gerald R. Ford was appointed vice president after the elected vice president Spiro Agnew resigned. Ford then became President when Nixon also resigned for reasons not related to Agnew's resignation.
General Ford was so unpopular for three main reasons. The first being that he pardoned Richard Nixon which many felt he shouldn't have done and also because he was still considered a part of Nixon's Watergate scandal and many thought he was just as shady as Nixon. Finally, Ford was the only president never elected into office because he was chosen by Nixon after the election because Nixon's Vice-president had to step down due to a scandal involving money. Then when Nixon retired because of Watergate Ford became president without ever being voted in which many feel was unfair that he was president when noone voted him in.