Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks even while allowing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to come to America and fill his military market basket. "I think I can prove," mused Nixon a while back, "that the arms Americans have sold have rarely been used in aggression, while those of the Russians and other nations have been used repeatedly. Are we to ignore requests from our friends in this kind of world...
...writes Gerald Ford of Richard Nixon in his memoirs, A Time to Heal, which will be published by Harper & Row in late May or June. The Nation magazine obtained a 655-page typescript of the book ("Somebody dropped off a copy," explained Editor Victor Navasky) and printed portions of the work last week.* The sampling contained no major revelations of the Ford years but did add illuminating detail and indicated that Ford has a harsher view of his predecessor than he had previously disclosed...
...Ford testified before a House subcommittee in October 1974, Nixon's chief of staff, Alexander Haig, first suggested to him the possibility of a pardon for Nixon a week before the President resigned. Further, Ford writes, "I did ask Haig about the extent of a President's pardon power." But after being warned by Aide John Marsh that the mention of a pardon in this context was "a time bomb," Ford later read Haig a statement: "I want you to understand that I have no intention of recommending what the President should do about resigning or not resigning...
Ford recalls that after becoming President, he learned from Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that the case against Nixon was "wide-ranging" and could "take years" to settle. He feared that Nixon "would not spend time quietly at San Clemente." Says Ford: "It would be virtually impossible for me to direct public attention to anything else ... [At Yale Law School] I learned that public policy often took precedence over rule of law." Consequently, he decided to pardon Nixon "to get the monkey off my back one way or the other." Ford adds: "Compassion for Nixon as an individual hadn...
...first Ford sent Aide Benton Becker to San Clemente to persuade the former President to make a full confession. Becker was met by Nixon Aide Ron Ziegler, who declared: "Let's get one thing straight immediately. President Nixon is not issuing any statement whatsoever regarding Watergate, whether Jerry Ford pardons him or not." Ziegler proposed a statement that Becker turned down; after three more drafts, they agreed on one in which Nixon stopped far short of a full confession. When Becker tried to explain to Nixon that accepting the pardon was an implied confession of guilt, Nixon wanted...