President Nixon nominates House Minority Leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford" id="mw7w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald R. Ford</a> as the successor to Vice President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spiro Agnew">Spiro T. Agnew</a>.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_12#cite_note-13" id="mw8Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw8g">[13]</span></a></sup>
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