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President Gerald Ford is the 38th president and the 40th vice Presidednt. He became president upon Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974. He signed the Helsinki Accords, which made a detente towards the Cold War, and he faced through the worst economy since the great depression. One of his biggest decisions that he made was to pardon Richard Nixon for his involvement in the Watergate Scandal. He lost re-election in 1976 to Jimmy Carter. He died in 2006 at his home for health problems.

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