President Richard Milhous Nixon in an evening televised address to the nation became the first POTUS to resign from office due to his involvement in the cover-up in the Watergate scandal.  Nixon was facing impeachment and when a group of republican senators came to the White House and gave him the news that he didn’t have the support to survive an impeachment trial, Nixon called it quits.  He would be out the next day replace by Vice President Gerald Ford. As Ford would say in his first address to the nation “Our long national nightmare is over” But Nixon like another failed POTUS #39- he would spend the rest of his life in rehabilitation and he would like #39 seemingly live forever, finally dying in 1994 at the age of 81.