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Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment charges growing from illegal acts during and after his reelection campaign in 1972. This was part of the so-called "Watergate Scandal" that included a break-in at a Washington building and a subsequent White House coverup of its involvement.

Nixon's Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew, had resigned in 1973 after a bribery indictment, and the newly appointed Vice President, Gerald Ford, became President.

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