Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direct causes of that beating were easily stated, indeed inescapable: the public outrage over Watergate, Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, double-digit inflation and worsening unemployment. These overriding issues coalesced to shape a generally sour mood on the part of voters that contributed either to the defeat of Republican incumbents or to the narrowness of many of their victories, whatever the quantity of purely local concerns...
...Portland translated the warm glow into some kind of G.O.P. vote. He might have picked up a jock or two in Portland's Coliseum. Then again he might have lost a million times that many ballots for the Grand Old Party by reminding people that he gave the pardon to Richard Nixon, by airlifting the presidential extravaganza all over the country while sugar hit 54? a lb. (up from 17? in January), farmers shot calves in their fields, unemployment jumped ahead and more trouble in the Middle East was confidently predicted by Jews and Arabs...
...spectrum there is Lucien, who actually joins the Germans and enjoys it. Towards the end, just before the maquis raids the hotel and kills all the collaborators except Lucien, who is hidden upstairs, a captured member of the Resistance offers him a chance for pardon if he will help him escape. Lucien rejects the offer--the man has irretrievably insulted him by asking how old he is. Given an explicit chance to re-enter society and save himself, he rejects it--out of pique...
...Americans want the Watergate cover-up trial to go through; indeed, 67% would oppose a presidential pardon of the defendants now. But people are not altogether at ease about the trial. The survey found that 46% believe that the defendants cannot get a fair trial at the present time, though 41% disagree...
...More than half (57%) of those surveyed believe that Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon; only 33% believe that the President did the right thing. Moreover, 46% reported that the pardon will be an important or fairly important factor in the way they decide to vote in 1976, if Ford runs...