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...North Carolina and William L. Scott of Virginia) and four Democratic liberals (James Abourezk of South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin). Their opposition centered chiefly on Rockefeller's wealth and his use of it. Goldwater had never really forgiven Rockefeller for failing to support him for President in 1964 but still endorsed the nomination originally. Explaining his change of mind, Goldwater said: "It is now apparent to me that Mr. Rockefeller did in effect use his own personal money to accomplish the purchase of political power." Senator Nelson concluded that...
...great theologies of Western man?Judaism, Christianity, Islam?have historically demanded that a wrongdoer, no matter how highly placed, repent before he is forgiven. King David of Israel, warned by the prophet Nathan of impending punishment for his crime in stealing Bathsheba, threw himself into days of fasting and prayer to avert divine wrath. King Henry II of England, whose burst of temper led to the murder of Thomas a Becket, submitted to a barebacked scourging by the monks of Canterbury as part of his penance for his complicity in the crime. Such dramatic mortifications may have sometimes masked...
Richard Nixon, on the other hand, has so far scorned even the language of contrition. He referred only to deep "regret and pain" over the Watergate "mistakes" and "misjudgments." His behavior even comes perilously close to that in Jesus' famous parable of the unmerciful servant: a man had been forgiven a large debt by his master, then brutally tried to collect what was owed him by a subordinate. After his own pardon, Nixon fervently opposes amnesty for Viet Nam War resisters. Indeed, according to his son-in-law David Eisenhower, Nixon now says that he would not have accepted pardon...
...Nixon has not forgiven himself," observes Maryknoll Priest-Psychologist Eugene Kennedy. "He has not admitted that he is capable of evil, that he has hurt countless persons. Forgiveness is a tough existential transition." Divine forgiveness is the model for human pardon, notes Church Historian Martin Marty, a Lutheran, and involves "an annihilation of what the sinner was. God completely wipes the slate clean. But that only happens if there is repentance, an about-face, a 180° turn. There is no evidence that the former President is doing anything of the kind." Nixon's attitude, complains Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president...
...Rockefeller has drawbacks as well. Chief among them is the fact that some members of the Republican right wing have never forgiven him for his apostasy in 1964, when he refused to endorse the party's presidential nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Indeed, a dozen conservative Republican Senators have already urged Ford to reject Rockefeller and nominate Goldwater instead. Still, Rockefeller has taken increasingly conservative positions on public issues. He left the governorship in 1973 to launch his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, one of whose members is Gerald Ford. The founding of that group was regarded...