Gerald Ford
How Ford becomes President?
- Nixon's resignation= Ford President
- Made president by only votes of Congress
- August 1974= President Ford
- Ford's Pardon- pardon for any crimes that Nixon may have committed as president, discovered or undiscovered
End of the Vietnam War
- Wanted Congress to vote for more weapons
- Without American aid South Vietnam collapsed
- Ford allowed Vietnamese to allow this people to stay in US
- US didn't lose but South Vietnam lost
- US gave them aircraft, tanks, and other items
- About $118 billion costed US