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Memorandum To House Speaker Carl Albert, Theodore C. Sorensen Nov 1973

Memorandum To House Speaker Carl Albert, Theodore C. Sorensen

Watergate Era

Memorandum to Speaker of the House of Representatives Carl Albert from Theodore Sorensen with proposed plans for a scenario where Speaker Albert succeeded to the presidency. Albert requested the memo amid the intensifying Watergate scandal and Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation. After Agnew’s resignation on October 10, 1973, Albert was first in the line of presidential succession.


Hearings Before The Committee On Rules And Administration United States Senate, Committee On Rules And Administration. Senate. United States. Nov 1973

Hearings Before The Committee On Rules And Administration United States Senate, Committee On Rules And Administration. Senate. United States.

Watergate Era

Hearings before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on the nomination of Gerald Ford to be the 40th Vice President of the United States. The committee held four hearings between November 1, 1973 and November 14, 1973. President Richard Nixon nominated Ford pursuant to Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment following Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation.


Remarks Of The President Announcing His Nominee For Vice President, United States Office Of The White House Press Secretary Oct 1973

Remarks Of The President Announcing His Nominee For Vice President, United States Office Of The White House Press Secretary

Watergate Era

Remarks of President Richard Nixon announcing Representative Gerald R. Ford as his nominee for Vice President of the United States. Nixon made the nomination following Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation two days earlier. The nomination occurred pursuant to Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.