Word: pardoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford's chief drawbacks: his lack of effectiveness, his weakness in leadership and his pardon of Nixon. Seven out of 10 panelists felt that Ford left the country's foreign affairs too much in Henry Kissinger's hands. A majority of his own supporters also thought his gaffe on Eastern Europe cost him needed votes. Commented Tony Gonzales, a student from El Paso: "Even my little brother knows Russia dominates these countries." Teacher's Aide Barbara Washington of Los Angeles, a Carter supporter, faulted the President for indecisiveness: "He should have taken quick action with Earl...
...last time, Ford had to struggle to maintain his composure while he watched from the end of the red carpet on the lawn. During the hearings before his confirmation as Vice President, Ford testified in effect that it would not be proper for him-if he became President-to pardon Nixon. When Ford did just that by granting the pardon, he ended his honeymoon with the American people. But he and Nixon had worked out no "deal." Ford granted the pardon in part to get the Watergate mess out of the way and also because, quite simply, he felt...
...says one exposes the wrongs of his past and basically clears up the record when he accepts pardon from God through faith. She says that baptism, an integral part of the Southern Baptist church, symbolizes the old life being cleansed and the new emerging...
...panelists backing Ford has doubts about him because of his pardon of Richard Nixon. Voicing many of these suspicions, Marie Flaherty, the wife of an insurance salesman in St. Petersburg, Fla., said: "I think it was planned between Ford and Nixon." The pardon also rankles with two out of three panelists supporting Carter. Said Dorothy Duncan, a conservative Democrat from Salem, Va.: "Nixon should have been treated like any other man and gotten the punishment that any other man would have gotten." In addition, six out of ten Carter supporters shared the complaint of Isabelle Sullivan, a blue-collar Democrat...
...pardon would grant forgiveness in the hope that this country can get behind it the nightmare of Viet...