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...course of the interview, the President spoke of his recent intervention in the Calley case, and of criticism directed toward FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
Nixon told the panel that his intervention in the Calley case was consistent with American military justice and that it had calmed public fears by assuring a fair final review of Calley's murder conviction...
...Rusty Calley did kill innocent civilians, though not perhaps out of any inherent murderous impulses. One psychologist who tested him described him as "a rather passive young man harboring a deep-seated sense of inadequacy, insecurity and inferiority." Surmised one of his examiners: "Undoubtedly his ability to carry out the orders [he claimed] he received in the briefing the night before [My Lai] would be interpreted by him not only as a measure of his competence as an officer but of his basic efficacy as a mature male...
...That Calley is remorseful is beyond question. At a New Year's Eve party in Atlanta, he proposed a heartfelt toast to "a lot more love and happiness in the world." He speaks of the horrors of war with more than the usual self-serving rhetoric. "I had been told what war is like," he says, "but I never knew until I got there. I was never taught the tragedy of war. After seeing war, you just sit down...
...Calley first heard the news of President Nixon's order releasing him from prison on television; as he left the stockade, one of the 50-odd cheering onlookers remarked: "Now at least he's not a prisoner of war in his own country." Removing Calley from the stockade had an enormous symbolic effect, but it will not change his life all that notably. To his dismay, all beer and liquor were removed from his apartment. He has a permanent MP guard in the apartment. He may leave his home only under escort, to eat at an Army mess hall...