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Election. president ford had been in office for less than three months when his party got a shellacking in the 1974 midterms. republicans lost 49 seats in the house and four in the senate. as punishment for the watergate stand and ford's subsequent pardon of richard nixon two months earlier. just eight days after those crushing '74 midterms, see the date there, november 13th, 197, the first democratic contender was already in. a month later before the year was even up, democrats had a second candidate. you might remember him. >> a second democrat announced today that he is a candidate for pres...
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