Episode 180 GERALD FORD The Accidental President (Part 5 Special Edition) May 6, 1975 wide ranging Press Conference just after the end of the Vietnam War

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On April 30, 1975, The North Vietnamese Army invaded Saigon and the war in Vietnam ended. While it was not a defeat for the United States since President Nixon had brokered a peace in January of 1973, and we had left, it sure felt like one.

Gerald Ford , who had inherited the Presidency at the end of the Watergate legal process ( A process we have shown that was riddled with alleged prosecutorial misconduct) was forced to watch helplessly as the city was overrun and we had to evacuate our Embassy.

President Ford had wanted to live up to the promises we had made when President…