... it. President Nixon and congress felt the same way. In 1974 Nixon signed a bill preventing federal legal services offices from using public or private funds to litigate school desegregation cases. Gerald Ford signed the Education Amendment of 1974 which prohibited busing beyond the school next closest to a student's home. Violent resistance met court-ordered busing in Boston in 1974 and in Louisville ... in 1975. Ford sent no troops to help. In 1976 Ford proposed a bill that, if it passed, would have limited court-ordered busing to no more than five years. A U.S. commission on civil rig...

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... Nixon's VP (Spiro Agnew) had to step down as a result of some problems with his income tax, Nixon used the 25th Amendment to replace Agnew with Gerald Ford. A year later when Nixon had to resign, President Ford became the new president and used the 25th Amendment to appoint Nelson Rockefeller as his VP. For the first time in our history, both the president ... ...

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... developing the implementing regulations for Title IX, the then U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare received more than 9,700 comments. The final regulations were published on July 20, 1974. President Gerald Ford signed the Title IX regulations on May 27, 1975 and they were then submitted to Congress for review. (http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/ge/history.html) In the 80's the ... ...

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