In 1974 when Vice President Gerald Ford succeeded to the presidency after Richard Nixon resigned, the country was in a bad economic crisis. The Arab oil shocks of 1973 led to a 300% increase in the price of oil, which translated into inflation of more than 12%.
On Feb. 25, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former public defender and current federal appeals judge in Washington, D.C., to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
A new NPR/PBS/Marist College poll measuring President Joe Biden's first year in office revealed "brutal" numbers that could spell disaster for the Democrats' chances of holding their already-tight margins in the House and Senate in this year's midterm elections, CNN said in an analysis Saturday.