President Ford
Furnish 2: Lilian Kao
Presidency
- First man to become president solely by a vote of Congress
- August 1974
- Pardoned Nixon for any crimes
Allan Bakke
Title IX Generation
Thurgood Marshall
S. Court's only black justice
Key Events
End of Vietnam War
- Congress ignores Ford's request for more weapons to Vietnam
- S.Vietnamese are unable to support themselves w.o US aid; collapses
- Americans and S.Vietnamese had to be evacuated through helicopter
- Ford admitted the S.Vietnamese to the US
- "Title IX Generation" begins to reach maturity; professionalize women's sports
- Allan Bakke v. Supreme Court 1978: claimed his med school application was rejected bc the school favored minorities