Ford selama 25 tahun bertugas di Dewan Perwakil Rakyat AS sampai Nixon meminta dia menjadi wakil presiden setelah wakil presiden sebelumnya, Spiro Agnew, menundurkan diri karena skandal korupsi.
Ford served for 25 years in the US House of Representatives until Nixon asked him to be vice president after the previous vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned over a corruption scandal.