How did you get in here?

As the only person to serve as President without having been elected to either the vice presidency or the presidency, Gerald Ford followed a unique path to the highest office in the landFords ascension to the presidency was unprecedented. When Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973 amid a bribery scandal, President Richard Nixon chose Ford as Vice President under the Vice-Presidential vacancy provision of the 25th Amendment. On December 6, the House of Representatives confirmed Ford by a vote of 387 to 35.  Less than a year later, Nixon himself resigned amid the Watergate scandal, making Ford the 38th President of the United States on August 9, 1974. His swearing-in, without the pomp and circumstance of an official inauguration ceremony, marked the first time a president had taken office without being elected to either the presidency or vice presidency.

“Kitty, nobody voted for Gerald Ford.” -Red Foreman Killed me when I watched the episode where Gerald Ford comes to town.

Ford wanted to run again in 1980 but ultimately decided not to. Polls showed him pretty close to Reagan. Even as far as February 1980, he was only two points behind. In hindsight, I wish he did. If he had won, I think the country wouldve been far better off.

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