Watergate
- they weren't caught the first time, but the second time when they went back to fix phones
- mark felt was a assistant CIA director
- was told to "follow the money"
- 1974 Nixon gives "I am not a crook" speech
- supreme court v. Richard Nixon rules that Nixon must turn over the tapes of conversations in the white house
- Richard Nixon eventually resigns as president of the United States
Gerald Ford
- was actually named Lesley Linchking
- went to Michigan and played football
- turned down the opportunity to play in the NFL to go into politics
- within weeks, 2 assassination attempts were tried on Ford
- carter defeated ford by 2 percent in the 1976 election
- crime rate went down a lot when he was in office
- called for Americans to stop spending money
- approved to Education for All Handicapped Children
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