Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only lied to the public but often to the aides who were risking their own freedom to protect him. Some jurors might refuse to convict in the belief that it would be unfair to imprison the aides while Nixon escapes criminal prosecution because of President Ford's pardon. The Nixon on the tapes, in fact, sounds more devious than the men on trial...
...York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford's economic speech to Congress, Reston wrote: "The fear here is that he didn't bite the bullet but nibbled it." The judicious David S. Broder of the Washington Post, who had defended the Nixon pardon, summed up Ford in his first hundred days as "surely the simplest man to occupy the White House in modern times...
...have to deal with an image, a fix. I didn't know how to deal with LBJ until he became a war criminal and I didn't know how to deal with Ford until the pardon...
Loeb said that President Ford is "one of the nicest, most decent" men, but added that the Nixon pardon and the mentioning of draft amnesty were ill-timed political moves...
...interest rates and stronger antitrust action instead. He capitalized on his own record of holding down city property taxes by attracting new business to San Jose and landing federal funds to improve parks and the police and fire departments. Watergate was a factor, since Milias supported Ford's pardon of Nixon while Mineta protested it. Mineta is expected to push hard for federal aid in solving city problems...