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...past three decades, American Presidents have been cautious about issuing pardons. In eight years, Bill Clinton gave out roughly 300. Herbert Hoover handed out almost 1,400 in half the time. Ever since Gerald Ford let Richard Nixon off the hook for Watergate, every act of clemency has been scrutinized. Still, each recent President has made a few controversial decisions. Nixon pardoned Jimmy Hoffa in 1971, then received the Teamsters' endorsement a year later. Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers on his first full day in office. Ronald Reagan pardoned two FBI officials who had authorized agents to break...
...When the ancient Egyptians embalmed their dead, they ground up the brain with a metal hook and drained it through the nose. They reasoned that the heart was the seat of intelligence and the brain was a marginal organ...
...feed the tribe before your time runs out and you all starve (for some reason, there's a lot of time pressure in the Outback). For those of you out there scoring at home, a tip: Rodger isn't much of a fisherman, but Jerri clearly knows how to hook the big ones. Is this a clue...
...easy to see why Bush would hesitate to let the guy off the hook. Doing so would really tick off his right wing, which has held on to the prosecution of Clinton like a dog to a postman's leg. Pardoning Nixon ruined Gerald Ford's election chances. The Wall Street Journal editorial page might never get over it. And it might be really, really hard to do, now that Clinton has spent the week making headlines by taunting Bush at every stop on his farewell tour, lauding the "Gore victory," suggesting that Bush won by stopping the Florida recount...
Bush must know there's no hook big enough to yank Bubba entirely off the stage, but continuing to prosecute him would only give him a brighter spotlight. TV loves nothing more than someone famous in the docket. During a Clinton State of the Union speech, the networks kept a crawl on the bottom of the screen with updates on the O.J. jury deliberations. Clinton's trial would be a crawl on the bottom of the screen of the Bush presidency. And for what? Is there a negative about Clinton yet to be established, a pound of flesh left...