Once upon a time a man by the name of Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States, the only President to do so. His resignation resulted in the first unelected President in the country’s history – Gerald Ford. Nixon appointed Ford as his Vice President after then VP Spiro Agnew resigned from office. While Gerald Ford might not have been his first choice for VP, Ford was someone Congress was willing to confirm. When Nixon resigned, VP Gerald Ford became President. And so it was that a man who never ran for the highest office in the land became both VP and President of the United States.
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