Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chaotic staff conditions may have seriously damaged the President when he made his first major decision. For all his openness, he failed to consult his intimates in Congress, much less prepare the public, before he issued his pardon to Nixon. With that one stroke of the pen, he lost most of the good will his amiable Administration had purchased him, although history may ultimately judge his pardon more kindly. In any event, Ford's honeymoon was short-lived. When a prominent Republican returned to his native state of Indiana, he discovered a surprising amount of unhappiness with Ford among...
Your Man of the Year selection is as popular as the Pardon of the Year...
...those arguments have serious flaws. When Sirica first questioned prospective jurors, there were some indications that the publicity about Nixon's pardon might actually have worked in the defendants' favor. Originally, half of the jurors said that convicting Nixon's aides would be unfair since their leader had gone free...
...Year Gerald Ford, the first President to comeunelected to the Oval Office. Though he began his stewardship buoyed by immense popular good will, Ford disillusioned many Americans with his sudden unconditional pardon of Nixon. For all his fall campaigning at home and his ventures abroad to Tokyo, Seoul and Vladivostok, Ford did not seem quick to assert the firm and imaginative leadership that the U.S. so badly needed. Still, at year's end, Ford had been in office only 144 days, and that was plainly too short a period to tell how effective his presidency might ultimately...
...store saleswoman, a logistics coordinator, a retired domestic and a hotel doorman. The jury is overwhelmingly female (nine to three). After they were selected, fully half the jurors told Judge John Sirica that they had reservations about convicting Richard Nixon's underlings in view of Nixon's pardon, but vowed that they would set aside such sentiments in judging the defendants...