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Gerald R. Ford
August 9, 1974 - January 20, 1977
The only president not elected as
either Vice-President or President
Created & edited by Steve Armstrong
SHS, 1994-2006
President Gerald R. Ford

Gerald Ford was
sworn in as President
on August 9, 1974
 Ford retained a few
of Nixon’s cabinet,
including Henry
Kissinger
 Appointed Don
Rumsfeld as Chief of
Staff

Dick Cheney was
appointed Deputy
Chief of Staff
Vice-President Rockefeller

Liberal New York
Governor Nelson
Rockefeller was
appointed vicepresident
 Democrats
threatened to not
confirm Rockefeller
 Rumsfeld strived to
keep Rockefeller from
having a voice in the
Ford administration
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ford
Ford with CIA Director
George Bush
President Bush with former
President Ford, April 23, 2006
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Ford pardoned Nixon

September 8, 1974, a
month after Nixon’s
resignation, Ford
granted Nixon a full
pardon
 President Ford’s
approval rating
slipped from 71% to
39% overnight
 Ford believed a
pardon would end
Watergate
President Ford’s early actions
 President
Ford issued a clemency order
to those who evaded the draft during the
Vietnam War

Clemency order issued September 16, 1974
 Draft
evaders and military deserters could
now return to the USA and perform
alternative (community) service
President Ford’s early actions
 Freedom
of Information Act was passed by
the Democratically controlled Congress


Ford vetoed the law
Veto overridden on November 21, 1974
 The
FOIA allowed for more public access
to alleged government secrets
President Ford’s veto pen
 President
Ford vetoed 39 bills in the first
few months of his administration

56 total vetoes were issued by President Ford
 Most
vetoes were against spending
increases proposed by the Democratically
controlled Congress


Ford vetoed a 1976 $6.1 billion spending
proposal, which he viewed as an election ploy
The veto was upheld by the U.S. Senate
 President
spending
Ford wanted to control federal
Sen. Frank Church’s
Committee
Sen. Church’s
Committee
investigated abuses
of the national
government since the
start of the Cold War
 Recommended that
restrictions be placed
on government covert
operations and
domestic spying
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Ford’s economic dilemma
 American
economy began to falter in 1971
 President Nixon removed USA from the
gold standard
 Post-war inflation rose from 5.9% in 1970
to 9.1% in 1975
 President Ford advocated his Whip
Inflation Now (WIN) program in 1975

The public viewed Ford as ineffective
 Chicago
& Detroit lost half of their
manufacturing jobs
Role of the Twin Towers
New York’s World
Trade Center twin
towers were
completed in 1977
 Signified a shift in the
American economy
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New energy policies

Alaska Pipeline was
first proposed in 1968

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completed in 1977
The pipeline
transported oil from
Alaska’s north slope
to the port at Valdez
Prudhoe Bay pump station
Beginning of the Pipeline
Pipeline critics
Other regulations
 55-mph

speed limit forced on all states
This was the second most disobeyed law
since prohibition
Expansion of coal mining
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Ford’s Foreign Policy
 Ford
met with Brezhnev in 1974 to lay the
groundwork for a new SALT II agreement
 Kissinger continued his shuttle diplomacy,
laying the groundwork for a future peace
agreement between Israel and Egypt
Fall of Saigon, 1975
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Angolan Civil War
Helsinki Accords, August 1975
 Helsinki Accords
were a series of
agreements between the USA, Russia and
several other nations
 USA & USSR agreed to the post-WW II
division of Europe
 Signatory nations agreed to respect the
human rights of citizens

The may have led to more anti-communist
agitation in eastern Europe
Ford signed Helsinki Accords
Squeaky Fromm, Sept 5, 1975

President Ford is
hustled away to
safety after Squeaky
Fromm attempted to
shoot him
Sarah Moore, Sept 22, 1975

President Ford
grimaces as a shot is
fired at him by Sarah
Jane Moore in San
Francisco, CA
Ford sought re-election in
1976
Ford selected Bob Dole

Sen. Bob Dole
appealed to the
conservative wing of
the Republican Party
 Favored by Rumsfeld
The campaign

Vice-President
Rockefeller,
campaigning for Bob
Dole, reacted to
college students
heckling them
Carter’s Playboy interview
Ford-Carter Debate

President Ford
suggested that
Russia did not control
eastern Europe
Carter defeated Ford
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