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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.

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