Timeline Friday 9 August 1974

Events on Friday 9 August 1974 4

• 1969 – 1974 Nixon presidency 37th President — resigned 1974 Richard Nixon served as the 37th President from January 20, 1969 until his resignation on August 9, 1974 — the only US president to resign. He opened relations with China, ended the Vietnam War, and created the EPA before Watergate destroyed his presidency.
• 1973 – 1974 Watergate scandal Nixon resigns The break-in at the Watergate complex and subsequent cover-up led to the only resignation of a sitting US President, Richard Nixon, in August 1974.
• 1974 – 1977 Ford presidency 38th President — 1974 to 1977 Gerald Ford assumed the presidency on August 9, 1974 after Nixon's resignation, serving until January 20, 1977. His pardon of Nixon cost him re-election. He presided over the end of US involvement in Vietnam.
• 1974 Nixon resigns Nixon resigns Richard Nixon resigned on 9 August 1974, the only American president to do so, three days after the release of a tape proving he had ordered the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in to be obstructed. Impeachment and conviction were by then certain. Gerald Ford pardoned him a month later.