Even as he hopes to return to the White House in 2025, Donald Trump is the first former U.S. president to be indicted. But he is hardly the first president, in or out of office, to face legal trouble.
The first U.S. president without government or military experience. The first to be impeached twice. The first to aggressively challenge the certification of his successor.
Some historians wonder about president Warren Harding's fate had he not died in office, in 1923. Numerous officials around him would be implicated in various crimes, including Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, whose corrupt land dealings became known as the "Teapot Dome Scandal.
Most ex-presidents of the past half-century have led relatively uneventful public lives -- creating foundations, delivering lucrative speeches, or in the case of Jimmy Carter, doing abundant charitable works. Nixon's disgrace scarred him for years, though he eventually reemerged to talk about global affairs and counsel aspiring politicians and potential presidents, including Trump.
Farrell notes that Ford's pardon happened so soon after Nixon stepped down that Jaworski's office didn't have time to fully consider charges against Nixon. Ford himself would say that an "indictment, a trial, a conviction, and anything else that transpired" would have distracted the country from more immediate problems.
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