Gerald Ford was an accidental president who got his job because a former Maryland governor, Vice President Spiro Agnew, was found to have taken bribes during his days in Annapolis, and President Richard Nixon, who had replaced Agnew with Ford, quit because he was about to be impeached.

Ford died Tuesday, three decades after he left office.

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