Gerald Ford
By: Chad Houchin
Ford Becomes President
- Was the first unelected President selected through the Senate after Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency
- His name was submitted by Nixon as Vice President after Spiro Agnew
- As president Ford issued a "full pardon" to Nixon known as Ford's Pardon
End of the Vietnam War
- In the beginning of 1975 North Vietnam made a full scale invasion of South Vietnam
- Ford applied for South Vietnam which was rejected
- South Vietnam fell quickly
- On April 19th, 1975 the last Americans were evacuated from South Vietnam