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8 de ago. de 2021 · In an evening televised address on August 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White House.
15 de jun. de 2015 · See Richard Nixon’s Resignation Speech—and What Happened Right After. 3 minute read. By Lily Rothman. June 15, 2015 12:00 PM EDT.
24 de nov. de 2009 · Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to resign from office. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States in the East Room of the White ...
Watergate: The aftermath. August 8, 1974: Nixon announces his resignation—and changes the presidency forever (Chapter 4) By Ken Hughes. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office. With those words, Richard Nixon became the first—and so ...
Richard Nixon is the only United States president ever to have resigned the office mid-term. Having secured a landslide re-election in November 1972, his resignation on August 9, 1974 came just eighteen months into his second term. One consequence of Nixon’s resignation was that Gerald Ford became the first president never to have been ...
17 de jun. de 2020 · Nixon decided to resign when he realized that he “no longer had a strong enough political base in Congress” to make it possible for him to complete his term in office. He thanked his friends for their support, and asked all Americans to back the new President, Gerald R. Ford, himself in office due to the resignation of former Vice President Spiro Agnew.
This Day In History. In an evening televised address, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings under way against him for his involvement in the Watergate affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the White ...
