What caused dips in approval of Clinton and Ford's early presidency?

by kernco

I was looking at the graphs of approval ratings of past presidents compared to Trump at fivethirthyeight (bottom of page) and I noticed that while Trump's first 100 days were the lowest approval ratings of any recent president, Clinton and Ford had drops in approval fairly early on that put them below where Trump is currently. What events caused those dips?

matt_dot_txt

In the case of ford, his pardoning of Nixon was extremely unpopular.