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Who succeeded Richard Nixon as president after he resigned?

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Gerald Ford succeeded Richard Nixon as U.S. president after Nixon resigned. He was Nixon’s second vice president. President Ford’s earliest acts included offering amnesty for those who had evaded the draft or deserted during the Vietnam War and pardoning Nixon for “all offenses against the United States.” This pardon made him massively unpopular.