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...Pardon me, but isn't this golf were talking about...
Bill Clinton might have to admit it?s a fair enough question: Why the sudden presidential pardon this summer for 16 Puerto Rican terrorists who had been in jail for years? Though good guys Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter backed the clemency, was it just a human-rights issue? Or was it political husbandry (and a bad job of it, too) for Hillary?s New York Senate run? Republicans want to know. Clinton ain?t telling. The White House braved the ghosts of Nixon one more time Thursday and invoked executive privilege, waving away congressional subpoenas for documents and witnesses...
Ford is resigned to history's continuing struggle to sort out the Watergate tangle, including the shadow that follows him over his pardon of Nixon. Few people who know Ford believe he is hiding a great secret about that decision, or about anything else. He is a stranger to guile. Just last week he was chuckling again over the most famous line he uttered as President: "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." It was not his line, and he almost rejected...
...Senators have sensed that the V.P.'s team would strike against anyone sounding too many pro-Bradley notes. "Ninety-five percent of my colleagues here on the Democratic side believe that Bill Clinton has consciously turned over the reins of political power--the power of appointment, the power of pardon, the power relating to those things that affect partisan politics--to Al Gore," Biden says. "Whether that's true or not, and it appears to be, is not really the point. That's an unusual tactic, a 1940s tactic. Not retribution, but just real clear." Gore's camp...
...flippantly. I only hope it wasn't as flippantly as Sofen laughs off the Union army's wartime atrocities. The most infamous case involved Union Gen. John B. Turchin who looted, plundered, raped and ravaged Athens, Ala., during the war. When he was court-martialled, he received a presidential pardon and was then promoted by Lincoln, sending a clear message that atrocities were not only acceptable, but encouraged...