Word: pardon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have mixed emotions, but it is undoubtedly good for the country that we do not have to continue as a divided nation. History will take care of Nixon without a formal judicial finding. His Administration will go down as one of the worst in history because of corruption. The pardon of Nixon should be matched by the granting of unconditional amnesty to those who resisted service in the Viet Nam War. The young men who refused to take part in that war for reasons of conscience have an even higher right to amnesty and pardon than Nixon...
America's greatest President was a man of compassion. A century later we have a new President who is also a man of compassion. Long after the vultures and biodegradables have departed, the pardon of Richard Nixon by President Ford will go down in history as the mark of a man who is both courageous and decisive...
Particularly troubling to me as a Christian is the fact that President Ford appeals to his conscience "as a humble servant of God" in granting this pardon. Unlike Mr. Ford, I serve a God who is a God of justice as well as a God of mercy. By him, kings and paupers shall one day be judged alike...
...follow and react to big political developments, though not to the rancorous extremes of a few years ago. Not surprisingly, President Ford's promise of limited amnesty for Viet Nam War-era deserters and draft dodgers won him a measure of popularity in campus communities, while his full pardon of former President Nixon produced cries of outrage. On a Sunday evening a student called a talk show in Lawrence, Kans., and suggested that instead of pardoning Nixon, Ford should have urged him to go to Canada...
TerHorst's sudden resignation over the Nixon pardon appears to have ended that blissful phase, drained the high hopes and seriously smudged the Administration's credibility. TerHorst learned of the pardon only late the day before it was made public, when an inner group of White House aides approached him about arrangements for Ford's announcement. It was not the first time in the past week that terHorst had been kept in the dark about an important presidential decision. White House aides misled him into telling reporters that General Alexander M. Haig Jr. would remain...