Chiropractic is based on the theory that if the spinal column is properly aligned, nerve impulses can freely flow along the spinal cord. If the spinal column is out of alignment (a subluxation) the flow of nerve impulses is interrupted and disease (not just back pain) result. This is called the subluxation theory.
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr was the thirty-eighth President (1974-1977). He was the only President who was never elected as either Vice President or President. He became President after the resignation of Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal. He was born Leslie Lynch King Jr on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother married Gerald Ford, who adopted the boy and gave him his name.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: The only elected president to lose re-nomination was Franklin Pierce in 1856. Chester A. Arthur, who succeeded to the presidency upon the assassination of James A. Garfield on September 20, 1881, failed to win the 1884 Republican Presidential nomination for a full term of his own. He left office on March 3, 1885 and died of Bright's Disease (a kidney ailment) on November 18, 1886 at the age of 57.