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A former Michigan Football star, World War II Naval Officer, and a House Minority Leader, __________________ was inaugurated President in 1974 following the earlier resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew and the August resignation of Richard Nixon. This President is unique in modern era in that he became President despite never having won an election on a national-level ticket. The distrust of the Federal government in the wake of many scandals, the fall of South Vietnam to a North Vietnamese invasion, the ongoing "Energy Crisis", and a distrust of establishment politicians as a result of multiple scandals all conspired to lead to his defeat in the 1976 Presidential election to former Georgia Governor James Earl "Jimmy" Carter. Sharing his last name with a popular automotive brand, he was compared to a car known as the "Pinto" that was also in disrepute during this time.

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