On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon officially ended his term as president, and just minutes later, his unelected successor was sworn in as the 38th president of the United States.
Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1974, President Richard Nixon officially ended his term as the 37th president of the United States. Minutes later, Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the 38th president in the East Room of the White House."My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," Ford told the nation in a speech.
, Watergate complex. Later that year, reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward from The Washington Post discovered a conspiracy surrounding the incident, leading to the political scandal.In July 1973, testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee revealed that all of Nixon’s White House conversations were taped. The Supreme Court ruled that Nixon would need to provide the tapes and documents subpoenaed by special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox.Later that year, on Oct.
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