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...Precedents. Although presidential authority to pardon a person before he is charged with a crime seems to have been established by precedent, it has rarely been exercised. Most pardons are granted after conviction or after a person has served part of a prison term. Usually they are awarded to restore full civil rights to a convict so that he may be employed in certain businesses operating under government licenses (such as bars and banks). Federal rules normally require an applicant to wait until three years after his conviction or release from prison to apply for a pardon. But in certain...
...national security. That will stop it. The American people will soon tire of the whole affair. Sam Ervin's committee won't last long. Nobody can really understand the complexities of the case. The House will never impeach. The Senate will never convict. At each turn, Nixon's contempt for the intelligence of the citizens he governed and his failure to comprehend their basic decency led him further into crime...
...Republican President. In the first place, it could prove disastrous to his own career. More significant, it could have a disproportionate effect on the whole impeachment fight, freeing Republican Congressmen to vote their conscience -or the politics of their districts-and unquestionably increasing the chance that the Senate would convict the President by a two-thirds vote and remove him from office...
...Rhodes sees it, impeachment by the House of Representatives is a certainty; the President, he says flatly, "is down the tube." Further, he fears that even if the Senate does not vote to convict the President, the vote will be so close to a two-thirds majority that the nation would be left without an effective President for the next two years...
Precisely at the moment when the 1 p.m. prison whistle sounded, a convict limped into the third-floor library brandishing a .38-cal. pistol. "Get out of here," he shouted at other prisoners, as he ordered them down the ramp from the library. When two guards tried to come up the ramp, the convict fired at them, hitting one in the foot. Both fled. Two other convicts, also carrying pistols, joined the first, and they slammed shut the double glass doors of the library. Trapped within were 15 people - ten employees of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, including seven...