Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Easy Target. "Carter's main objection to Washington," adds Reagan, "is who's there, not what's being done." Reagan thinks Ford will be an easy target for Carter's nonEstablishment approach, for Democratic attacks on Watergate, Nixon and the pardon...
...most sensitive issue concerned Viet Nam draft evaders and deserters. Sam Brown, 32, once a prominent leader of the antiwar movement and now state treasurer of Colorado, argued for full pardons. After some amiable maneuvering between Brown and Atlanta Attorney Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief spokesman on the platform committee, another compromise emerged. A blanket pardon would be promised to draft dodgers, but treatment of those who actually deserted from military service would be considered "on a case-by-case basis." Said Brown: "I am not enthusiastic about this language, but it is the position of our candidate...
Carter also tended to frame his stands on hot issues in ways that had broad appeal. He drew a distinction between amnesty for Viet Nam draft evaders and the "full pardon" that he promised to grant in the first week of his Administration. Amnesty, he said, implied that draft evasion was all right, while a pardon merely granted forgiveness. He thus brought audiences around to accepting the idea of a pardon. In fact and in law, however, amnesty does not imply approval. Reminded of this by a TIME correspondent last week, Carter smiled and rather archly said: "I'll define...
What crossover vote [May 17]? Did anyone ever think that people voted for Ronald Reagan to protest Gerald Ford and the pardon he gave to former President Nixon? Reagan had the issues: foreign policy, national security, the post offices and the Panama Canal giveaway...
...nearly everyone in the U.S. knows, John Ehrlichman was one of President Nixon's chief aides. Since Watergate he has avoided jail (without benefit of pardon), settled in New Mexico, and is still appealing convictions on charges that range from two counts of perjury to conspiracy to obstruct justice...