Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find no basis for attacking the pardon legally. It would be improper for me to comment one way or the other as to whether I approve or disapprove of it from a personal standpoint...
What do you think would have happened had you challenged the pardon in court...
Good Reasons. The questions about the pardon were posed by a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, the body that had so diligently weighed the evidence against Nixon before recommending his impeachment...
...Veniste wasted no time in grappling with the question on everyone's mind: the complicity of Nixon, who was not in court and is safe from prosecution because of his pardon. The prosecutor, in effect, pronounced Nixon guilty, contending that the conspiracy to obstruct justice had "involved the participation of even the President himself...
...true that you approve of the pardon of Richard Nixon, including the timing...