The program usually seen at this time will not be shown

so that we may bring you the following NBC News special report.

Here is NBC News correspondent, John Chancellor.

Good evening.

What we were about to see has never before happened

in American history.

That was October 15th, 1973.

What we're about to see has never before happened

in American history.

That'll grab your attention.

What John Chancellor was talking about there,

what he was preparing the audience for,

was not the resignation of the Vice President.

That had already happened five days earlier.

And it wasn't the resignation of the President either.

That was still a few months away at that point.

That special report that night was actually

for the very, very special occasion

of an address to the nation in prime time

from the newly convicted ex-vice president

of the United States.

A former Vice President of the United States

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