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...committed himself to consider them. The very next day, he said, he told Haig that he was making no recommendation whatsoever about anything having to do with a possible Nixon resignation or a pardon...
Sudden Change. As Ford himself reminded the subcommittee, he declared at his first presidential press conference, held on Aug. 28, that he would make no decision on pardoning Nixon prior to some kind of legal conclusion. Why then did he issue the pardon on Sept. 8? Ford did not really explain his sudden change of heart, except to say that he had become increasingly worried that the prosecution of the former President would generate passions that "would seriously disrupt the healing of our country from the wounds of the past...
...Ford not insisted that Nixon confess his guilt before giving him his pardon? The President replied that he did not think it was proper for him to have made such a demand. But he also made it clear that he felt that Nixon had admitted guilt by the simple fact of accepting the pardon...
...mind." Among a series of questions, she wondered if Ford would be willing to turn over to the subcommittee all the taped recordings of conversations between himself and Nixon. Ford did not answer directly, although exactly what bearing such tapes would have on the issue of the pardon was unclear. Nixon pulled the plug on his recording system in mid-July 1973 while he was still determined to tough it out in office. Spiro Agnew was then Vice President, and Ford was the House minority leader...
...time of the pardon, Ford gave the former President control over the tapes and related documents. Tradition, said Ford, made them Nixon's property, a view that is now being sharply challenged (TIME, Sept. 30). When Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski protested that he needed access to the materials, the White House temporarily suspended the agreement. In recent weeks, Ford's and Nixon's lawyers have tried to reach a new agreement on how the tapes should be handled, but to no avail. On the day of last week's hearing, Nixon went to court...