Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...larkish script concerns a descendant of Victor Frankenstein-a level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake...
...that matter, consider Ford him self in the matter of pardoning Former President Richard Nixon. He knew it would be an unpopular act, and even when he found just how unpopular, he still defended it before the Senate Judiciary Committee as the right thing to do in his judgment for the best interests of the nation - something he would even do again. Whatever the merits of the pardon, in that case his perception of his leadership duty and his role as President was exactly right. As Woodrow Wilson put it: "A President whom [the country] trusts can not only lead...
...drifted out of touch, Ford met with a range of congressional leaders both to talk economics and explain the SALT agreement tentatively reached with the Soviet Union. In an effort to persuade more draft evaders and deserters to respond to his flagging amnesty program, he granted full pardon to eight convicted resisters and conditional clemency to ten others. To counter criticism that his White House has not yet focused on domestic problems in the fashion that it has foreign affairs, Ford has decided, TIME has learned, to make Nelson Rockefeller his domestic "czar" once Rockefeller is-confirmed as Vice President...
Known as a hard-driving network newsman for NBC, once wounded in Viet Nam, Nessen became close to Ford during the Vice President's frequent travels. Stepping in after Jerald terHorst's stunning resignation over the Nixon pardon, Nessen solemnly promised not to be just a salesman for the President and extracted a pledge from Gerald Ford that he would be informed about all pending White House business...
Dissatisfaction with Nessen set in at the end of September, when TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey reported that former President Nixon had offered to return his pardon to Ford. Nessen, on Ford's orders, downplayed the gesture. The press corps questioned the handling of the event. Nessen also showed inexperience on Ford's trip to see Mexican President Echeverria. He allocated most seats on the press helicopter for TV personnel and a handful for newspaper correspondents...