![ford-nixon-white-house](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Nixon_Pardon1.jpg)
The Final Day: Vice President Gerald R. Ford, left, with his boss in the Oval Office on August 9, 1974. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
The Final Day: Vice President Gerald R. Ford, left, with his boss in the Oval Office on August 9, 1974. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Hulton Archive/Getty Images