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After a series of phone calls to Congressional leaders and Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, President Gerald Ford entered the Oval Office to face a single camera and about a dozen hastily assembled reporters.1 He was at peace with what he was about to do. As was his custom, he had gone to church earlier, and he would play a full round of golf at Burning Tree in Bethesda later, as he had the day before.
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Newell, T. (2012). Constitutional Crisis: Ford Assumes the Presidency and Pardons Nixon. In: Statesmanship, Character, and Leadership in America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137084729_7
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