Statement By The Honorable Gerald R. Ford Minority Leader of The House of Representatives Before The House Committee on the Judiciary

Authors

Gerald R. Ford

Files

Description

Prepared remarks of Gerald Ford to the House Committee on the Judiciary on the first day of the committee’s hearings to consider Ford’s nomination to be 40th Vice President of the United. President Richard Nixon had nominated Ford pursuant to Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment following Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation.

Start Date

11-15-1973

Rights

Courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. All Rights Reserved.

Keywords

25th Amendment, Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Presidental Succession, Presidential Inability, Vice President