Ford administration

The Ford Cabinet
Office	Name	Term
President	Gerald Ford	1974–1977
Vice President	none	1974
	Nelson Rockefeller	1974–1977
Secretary of State	Henry Kissinger	1974–1977
Secretary of Treasury	William E. Simon	1974–1977
Secretary of Defense	James R. Schlesinger	1974–1975
	Donald Rumsfeld	1975–1977
Attorney General	William B. Saxbe	1974–1975
	Edward H. Levi	1975–1977
Secretary of the Interior	Rogers Morton	1974–1975
	Stanley K. Hathaway	1975
	Thomas S. Kleppe	1975–1977
Secretary of Agriculture	Earl Butz	1974–1976
	John Albert Knebel	1976–1977
Secretary of Commerce	Frederick B. Dent	1974–1975
	Rogers Morton	1975
	Elliot Richardson	1975–1977
Secretary of Labor	Peter J. Brennan	1974–1975
	John Thomas Dunlop	1975–1976
	William Usery Jr.	1976–1977
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	Caspar Weinberger	1974–1975
	F. David Mathews	1975–1977
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	James Thomas Lynn	1974–1975
	Carla Anderson Hills	1975–1977
Secretary of Transportation	Claude Brinegar	1974–1975
	William Thaddeus Coleman Jr.	1975–1977
Chief of Staff	Alexander Haig	1974
	Donald Rumsfeld	1974–1975
	Dick Cheney	1975–1977
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Russell E. Train	1974–1977
Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Roy Ash	1974–1975
	James Thomas Lynn	1975–1977
United States Trade Representative	William Denman Eberle	1974–1975
	Frederick B. Dent	1975–1977

The presidency of Gerald Ford began on August 9, 1974, when Gerald Ford became President of the United States upon the resignation of Richard Nixon from office, and ended on January 20, 1977, a period of 895 days. Ford had served as Vice President of the United States since December 6, 1973, following Spiro Agnew's resignation from that office. The 38th United States president, Ford has the distinction of being the first, and to date the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency. His presidency ended with his defeat in the 1976 presidential election by Democrat Jimmy Carter.

As president, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente with the Soviet Union in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. In the aftermath of the war, Ford granted a conditional amnesty to Vietnam War draft dodgers. The foreign policy of the Ford administration was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President. Domestically, Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure. Ford controversially granted a presidential pardon to former President Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal.

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