Episode 178 GERALD FORD The Accidental President (Part 3) Working with Richard Nixon (Tape series 11)

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It is one thing to work with a President from the other party and be the loyal opposition that is often getting in the news for being opposed to the President. It is another to be your President's leader on the House floor pushing through his agenda, especially when you are in the minority. That is the position that Gerald Ford will be in for much of the Presidency of Richard Nixon. He was the President's lead lieutenant in the House of Representatives.

Richard Nixon assumed the Presidency as the first President since Zachary Taylor, with both houses of Congress in the…