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...Trial Balloon. For nearly 24 hours, the White House let be proclaimed the astounding possibility that all of the 26 months and millions of dollars spent in the painstaking investigation and prosecution of the Watergate crimes were about to be cast aside merely to spare Citizen Nixon further anguish. Most alarmed was Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's staff, which had already lost one of its stars, Counsel Philip Lacovara, 31, who quit because of the Nixon pardon. Hasty calls were placed to Ford's top counsel, Philip Buchen, who professed surprise that any such study was under way. Later...
...requests for pardons would be considered in the customary manner when and if they arose. If that was true, neither Ford nor his aides had tried to make it clear earlier, and the confusion naturally raised suspicions that the blanket-pardon idea might have been floated as a trial balloon. It was promptly shot down by a new wave of protest, including an overwhelming (55 to 24) sense-of-the-Senate resolution that no further presidential pardons be given in any Watergate case until trials have been completed...
...deficiency of some $171,000 for 1969. Although Nixon has publicly pledged to pay this amount, the statute of limitations for that year has run out, and he is not legally obligated to do so. The pardon excuses him from any criminal tax-fraud charges. Nixon also faces a "balloon" payment, already once postponed, of more than $200,000 on his San Clemente mortgage...
...given even before Richard Nixon left the White House. Ford's old House associate Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive, announced that he supported Rocky for Vice President if Ford took over as President. Though Ford had not asked Laird to float the trial balloon, he did nothing to stop...
Silent Guns. Once it would have been swiftly punctured by the party's right wing, which was outraged when Rockefeller refused to support Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential race. This time there were a few random shots but no fusillade. The balloon stayed afloat, and so did Rockefeller's chances. A few conservative diehards grumbled, but the big guns were relatively silent. Texas Senator John Tower said that Rockefeller would be O.K., though not his first choice. Senator Goldwater doubted that Rockefeller would go over with the G.O.P. rank and file, but would not oppose...