The Senate Watergate Committee began investigating the break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters. Based on the investigation, the House Judiciary Committee passed three articles of impeachment against Nixon in July 1974.
Nixon’s vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned after accusations of tax evasion surfaced against him. Nixon named Congressman Gerald Ford of Michigan his new vice president.
Congress passed the War Powers Act over President Nixon’s veto. The resolution limited the president’s ability to involve the United States in wars without the authorization of Congress by requiring the president to inform Congress of overseas troop deployment within forty-eight hours and to withdraw troops not authorized by Congress within sixty days.
The Supreme Court struck down a law requiring teachers to leave their jobs when they were five months’ pregnant in Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur.
Rather than face impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon resigned as president of the United States. His resignation made Gerald Ford, whom Nixon had appointed vice president upon Spiro Agnew’s resignation, president.
Gerald Ford issued an unconditional presidential pardon to Richard Nixon.
Congress enacted the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, which allowed tribes to directly make federal contracts and receive grants and gave tribal governments control over their own law enforcement, education, health programs, and social services.
In Thelma Stanton v. James Stanton, the Supreme Court invalidated a Utah law requiring that child support be paid until age 21 for a son but only to age 18 for a daughter.
President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 95-106, which authorized women’s entrance to the United States Military Academies.
The Equal Opportunity Credit Act prohibited discrimination by US lenders on the basis of sex, race, ethnic origin, religion, age, marital status, or welfare status.