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Gerald Ford accomplishments:

1. one month after taking office he pardond Nixon, he said it was to "save the nation from the prospect of a long, messy, and divisive trial."

2. Ford has survived 2 assassination attempts one by Lynette Fromme, who followed of Charles Manson. she pointed a gun at him but did not fire she was convicted for a life sentence but was released in 2009, the second time Sara Jane Moore shot one bullet at the president but it hit a bystander. she was also convicted to a life in prison but got out in 2007

3. Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, it made special education classes in  all of the US.

 

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