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Press releases from UFW headquarters in Delano announced that the strike was the largest in agricultural history, with 5000 workers walking off the job. But later, under oath, the director of the California Department of Employment, Albert Tieburg, reported that only 55 workers had gone on strike...
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...
...lawbreaking, obstruction of justice, violating the constitutional oath of office and tarnishing the cherished image of the presidency, President Ford granted Mr. Nixon an absolute and advance pardon. By strange contrast, up to 24 months of public service is suggested for the youthful draft evaders who acted and objected conscientiously to an immoral and unconstitutional war. What an act of favoritism by "the honest...
...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...