Word: oaths
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Incredible Oversight. The plan for handling deserters contains two sharp differences from the treatment of draft evaders: 1) only deserters must take an oath reaffirming their allegiance to the U.S.; 2) through an incredible oversight (privately admitted by the Pentagon but publicly denied as a mistake by the Justice Department), deserters can escape serving the alternate public-service work. They will be given "undesirable discharges" and must pledge to take a compensatory job, but will lose only the benefit of changing their discharge to one termed a "clemency discharge" if they fail to do so. Neither type of discharge...
...While that would undoubtedly have drawn a heavy protest too, supporting the contention of Ford's aides that acting later might have been even more difficult, it would have spared Nixon the agony of a trial. The former President's surviving admirers would have resented his being grilled under oath in a court...
...know it yet, and the person who is in the best position to tell them?because he has the fullest knowledge of it?is Richard Nixon. If he had been brought to court, Nixon would have been under intense political pressure to divulge the full truth under oath. His degree of guilt or innocence would have been established by the law, and any claims that he had been hounded from office would have been laid to rest. Richard Nixon may well testify at the future trials of other, less privileged Watergate principals, and at that time he could still reveal...
When I first took the oath of office as President five and a half years ago, I made this sacred commitment: to consecrate my office, my energies and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations. I've done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge. As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a better chance...
Last week the reality of becoming the nation's new First Family had still not quite taken hold. After her father had taken the oath of office and her parents were busy greeting guests at a reception, Susan Ford roamed wide-eyed through the White House. "Would anybody mind if I looked around?" she politely asked a military aide in the Red Room. "Not at all," he replied with a smile. "This is where you live...