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- it. FBI Agents undertook a thorough investigation of the break-in and related events. However, when Gray’s questionable personal role was revealed, he withdrew his name from the Senate's consideration to be Director. He was replaced hours after he resigned on April 27, 1973, by William Ruckleshaus, a former Congressman and the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who remained’ until Clarence Kelley's appointment (as . Director on July 9, 1973. Kelley, who was Kansas City Police Chief when he received ‘the appointment, had been an FBI Agent from 1940 to 1961. AFTERMATH OF WATERGATE Three days after Director Kelley’s appointment, top aides in the Nixon Administration resigned amid charges of White House efforts to obstruct justice in the Watergate case. Vice Presiden+ Spiro T. Agnew resigned in October, following charges of tay evasion. Then, following impeachment hearings that were broadcast over television to the American public throughout 1974, President Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Vice President Gerald R: Ford wes sworn in as President that same day. In granting an unconditional pardon to ex-President Nixon one month later, he vowed to heal the nation. : Director Kelley Similarly sought to restore public trust in the FBI and in law enforcement. He instituted numerous policy changes that targeted the training and selection of FBI and law enforcement leaders, the procedures of investigative intelligence collection, and the prioritizing of criminal programs. In 1974, Kelley instituted Career Review Boards and programs to identify and train potential managers, For upper Manegement of the entire law enforcement community, the FBI, in and the Major Cities Chief Administrators, started the National Executive Institute, which provided high-level executive trainine and encouraged future operational cooperaticn. Kelley also responded to scrutiny by Concress and the media on whether FBI methods of collecting intelligence in domestic ‘security and counterintelligence investigations ebridged Constitutional rights. The FBI had traditionally used its own criteria for intelligence collection, based on executive orders and blanket authority granted by attorney ,generals. After congressional hearings, Attorney General Edward Levi established finely detailed guidelines for the first time. “The guidelines for FBI foreicn ‘counterintelligence investigations went into effect on March 10, 15