Plainfield High School - Plainsman Yearbook (Plainfield, IL)

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With the dawn comes new life, new hope, and a new day.

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 upper left Vice-president Agnew answers newsmen’s questions one week before he resigned. lower left Listening attentively to an idea. President Rich Deardurff leads the Student Council. center The new' president. Gerald Ford, faces photographers after taking the oath of office. upper right After being confirmed by the Senate. Vice-president Rockefeller answers newsmen’s questions. lower right Super diplomat Henry Kis- singer answers questions at a Senate hear- ing. fur right I will not resign the job I was elected to.” said Richard Nixon in the speech when this picture w'as taken. U.S.sees This past year the U.S. has seen political upheaval never before witnessed. For the first time neither the president nor the vice-president had been elected. Early, President Nixon repeatedly denied his connec- tion with both the Watergate break-in and its cover-up, while he pledged not to resign the job he had been elected to do. Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew, the first victim of the Senate’s Watergate Investiga- tion, resigned before, pleading 10