Gerald Ford: Healing a Divided Country

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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When Richard Nixon resigned as President following the Watergate scandal, America was in a bad way. The nation needed a leader who could mend the country’s divisions. Was Gerald Ford that leader? Political commentator Hugh Hewitt has an answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	The date was August 9th, 1974.
0:35.0	Something had just happened that had never happened before.
0:38.0	An American president, Richard Nixon, resigned,
0:41.0	forced out of office by a political scandal forever known as Watergate.
0:45.9	The nation was in a bad way.
0:47.7	The fate of the Vietnam War remained uncertain.
0:50.4	The economy was in a recession, and faith in basic government institutions was almost
0:55.1	non-existent.
0:56.9	America was coming unglued.
0:59.2	Gerald Ford, now the 38th President of the United States, would have to hold it together. And that's exactly
1:04.9	what he did. In his first speech after being sworn in, Ford declared that our long
1:10.3	national nightmare is over.
1:12.6	It was what the American people needed to hear.
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