who was the first american president to resign from office. what was the political problem behind this?
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It's a common misconception that he was behind the break-in and attempted bugging. There is no proof he knew about this scheme. What he was accused of was trying to cover up the involvement of people connected with the White House to the break-in, by trying to get the CIA to ask the FBI not to investigate in certain areas. This was on the famous 'smoking gun' tape.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President; in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for the passage of key civil rights legislation and Medicare, a major "War on Poverty", as well as the acceleration of the war in Vietnam. He was elected in a landslide in 1964 but his reelection bid in 1968 collapsed as his party fell apart, and he announced that he would not seek re-election.
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Let's get one thing straight.  He did not "resign".  Bush asked him to leave.  In all of the previous calls for his resignation, he had said that he serves at the pleasure of the President.  That said, it's not a cut-and-run.  It gives the American people and the American government a fresh start-someone who can lead the war effort without having to worry about what the American people will think.  Rummy will always be blamed for anything that goes wrong with the war, so now it's time for someone who can honestly say, "I wasn't the one who was running it from the beginning, I just want to get the job done, and as quickly as possible.  I don't want to dwell on any possible mistakes; the past is the past, and this is what we have to get through."
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Well, if I'm getting your jist correctly, one of the people left out of the signing was George Washington. he didn't sign because he wasn't sure if he wanted to give the American people the idea that he wanted get into Foriegn affairs...or something to that effect. I'm sure someone else can explain it better.
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George Washington was the first president of the United States.  He was a tobacco farmer and the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.\n\n\nHe also have teeth made of ivory.
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Richard M. Nixon\n\nReconciliation was the first goal set by President Richard M. Nixon. The Nation was painfully divided, with turbulence in the cities and war overseas. During his Presidency, Nixon succeeded in ending American fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the U.S.S.R. and China. But the Watergate scandal brought fresh divisions to the country and ultimately led to his resignation.\n\nHis election in 1968 had climaxed a career unusual on two counts: his early success and his comeback after being defeated for President in 1960 and for Governor of California in 1962.\n\nBorn in California in 1913, Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law. In 1940, he married Patricia Ryan; they had two daughters, Patricia (Tricia) and Julie. During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. \n\n On leaving the service, he was elected to Congress from his California district. In 1950, he won a Senate seat. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate.\n\nAs Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace.\n\nHis accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court. One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing.\n\nSome of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria.\n\nIn his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins on record.\n\nWithin a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called "Watergate" scandal, stemming from a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign. The break-in was traced to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. A number of administration officials resigned; some were later convicted of offenses connected with efforts to cover up the affair. Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation.\n\nAs a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973. Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President.\n\nFaced with what seemed almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America."\n\nIn his last years, Nixon gained praise as an elder statesman. By the time of his death on April 22, 1994, he had written numerous books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy.
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resigning from office
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George Washington was the first President of the United States of America. However, there were several "presidents" before him, some of the Continental Congress, others of the Confederated States. However, these were not executives at all and did not have any real authority. They were merely the presidents of the legislature. They were, in fact, called President of the United States in Congress Assembled. Of those, the first was Peyton Randolph.
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The third United States president was Thomas Jefferson. The third mayor [not governor] of the District of Columbia was  Sharon Pratt Kelly, the successor to Marion Barry.
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truman started in 1945 then eisenhower, JFK, lyndon johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, george H. W. bush, CLinton, and the current bush. Nixon was the one who resigned on August 9, 1974 because of the Watergate controversy and all the Plumbers and crap...there were not two presidents that were impeached
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The First President of the United States of America was George Washington.
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it was James Madison. He was president from 1809 through 1812.
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Andrew Johnson.  He was never kicked out as the Senate didn't convict him.  50 years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Johnson was right.  Johnson was the President after Lincoln's assassination.  Basically, he fired the Sec. of War that Lincoln hired.  The Republicans didn't want him to do that b/c he was a Democrat.
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born July 14, 1913) was the 40th (1973–1974) Vice President and the 38th (1974–1977) President of the United States. He was the nation's first President who was elected to neither the Presidency nor Vice Presidency. Instead, following the resignation of Spiro Agnew in 1973, he was appointed as Vice President by Richard Nixon following confirmation by Congress, and when Nixon later resigned, on August 9, 1974, Ford assumed the Presidency. Along with his own Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, he is one of only two people to have been appointed Vice President rather than elected.
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Due to the massive losses by the Republican Party, the President forced him to resign.  I believe the President thinks that Mr. Gates will be able to satisfy both Parties.
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The first president to wear a beard was Abraham Lincoln.
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Lincoln,\n\nhe was from an age of true MEN w/ both ethics and morals being in office.\n\nHe was better educated, both socially, as well as academically...and he had WORK ETHIC!! He failed a LOT before being finally voted into office.\n\nClinton, I have no problems with. While ethically he could have been better (marriage/affair problems and such)....he was a great president both economically and in terms of foreign relations.\n\nBush, has caused nothing but dissention and discord since his inauguration.....