Vice President of the United States the Twenty-fifth Amendment established a procedure for filling such a vacancy: This procedure has been implemented twice since the amendment came into force. The first instance occurred in 1973 following the October 10 resignation of Spiro Agnew, when Gerald Ford was nominated by President Richard Nixon and confirmed by Congress. The second occurred 10 months later following Ford's August 9, 1974 accession to the presidency upon Nixon's resignation, when Nelson Rockefeller was nominated by President Ford and confirmed by Congress. Had it not been for this new constitutional mechanism, the vice presidency would have remained vacant after Agnew's resignation and
School integration in the United States desegregation was becoming more inflamed by the day. In March 1970, President Richard M. Nixon decided to take action. He declared Brown to be <nowiki>"right in both constitutional and human terms" and expressed his intention to enforce the law. He also put in place a process to carry out the court'</nowiki>s mandate. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew and I (George Schultz, then secretary of labor) were asked to lead a cabinet committee to manage the transition to desegregated schools. The implementation of school integration policies did not just affect black and white students; in recent years, scholars have noted how