Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, the American people got their revenge against Richard Nixon for Watergate, and to get it they crucified a good, decent man whose only mistake was to pardon another human being for making a mistake...
Rather than President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, it was the American electorate's defeat of Gerald Ford that has finally put the Watergate affair behind...
...Gilmore, the suicide bid may have taken him still further from his desired death-a desire that some psychologists now believe may have motivated his apparently random killings. A pardon-board hearing of his case was delayed last week until December so that he can recover. To head off another suicide try-so that the state may execute him at the legally chosen time-Gilmore will now be held in the infirmary in "as close to solitary confinement as this prison has had in years," said Warden Samuel Smith. Meantime Gilmore has little to do except mull over the book...
...repeatedly said that you would issue a blanket pardon for all Viet Nam draft resisters in your first week in office. Is that a promise you intend to keep...
...investigation of his campaign finances by the Watergate special prosecutor; the inquiry that plagued his campaign for three weeks was prompted by a single informant, whose identity is still not known. Ford's chief campaign asset was probably his character. The President appeared straightforward and reliable. Only his pardon of Nixon was held against him as a moral question mark. Ford hoped that his openness would have more appeal to the voters than Carter's enigmas...