Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among his other problems, the President is burdened by Watergate; memories of Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon will surface often in the next ten weeks. In his keynote address, Baker tried to bury the issue by contending that the Republicans had faced up to it "with honor and dignity." And he carried the battle to the Democrats: "Since then, America has learned a lot about other political abuses in prior Democratic Administrations, and even in the present Democratic Congress?abuses of personal liberties, invasions of privacy and political mischief of the most shocking type. But there...
...Sears was among the earliest to sense that Ford, as an appointed incumbent, was vulnerable, and that his huge budget deficits, Nixon pardon and foreign policy stressing accommodation with Moscow and Peking had created a large Republican constituency for Reagan. Sears' own cool, charm and intelligence guarantee him a role in future campaigns-if he wants one. Sears insists that he wants no part of Ford's campaign. Instead, "I'll go back to practicing law." He believes the wounds from the primaries are still too sore for him to join the President's cause; besides...
...biggest and most bizarre political crime in our history. It touched more fundamental institutions and purposes than any previous corruption. The lingering concern of Americans is demonstrated by many small facts. Fifty-five percent of the people still believe it was wrong for Gerald Ford to pardon Nixon. More than 50 million people have seen the movie All the President's Men since it came out six months ago, putting it in the top 30 alltime big hits. The Woodward-Bernstein book The Final Days has sold 610,000 hardback copies in five months-one of the most successful...
Military and civilian courts immediately began applying the amnesty, and by week's end some 100 prisoners had been freed. How many more will win release depends on how individual judges interpret the decree's terms. The amnesty is considerably broader than a limited pardon granted by Juan Carlos last December, when more than 600 political prisoners and thousands of common criminals were set free (although their convictions remain on the record). By specifically excluding people convicted of violent crimes, the amnesty fails to benefit some 200 prisoners, most of them Basques, who were jailed under last year...
...stature mostly by doing nothing. His reaction to the frantic Reagan maneuvering had been low-key. Perhaps he had learned the old wisdom of Texan Sam Rayburn's curt advice: "The three most important words in the English language are 'wait a minute.'" Since his hasty pardon of Nixon, Ford has typically moved slowly, listened widely to advice and pushed steadily on, waiting for his adversaries to slip. Reagan did so last week. Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from Congress) to the White House...