October 10, 1973: Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President, pleading no contest to charges of tax evasion.
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October 13, 1973: Gerald Ford is nominated Vice President.
October 20, 1973: A crime wave at Harvard begins, with three assaults and two armed robberies over the course of the week. Nationally, Nixon fires Cox in the Saturday Night Massacre. Warburg Professor of Economics John Kenneth Galbraith says, “This is it. Nixon will be impeached.”
November 3, 1973: Dean of Students Archie Epps III considers hiring more police to combat the wave of muggings by Mather, Dunster and Leverett.
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