Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crux of Shaw's argument deals with the degree and tone of coverage. Neither he nor any other serious critic suggests that the press should have greeted Ford's accession with cries of alarm or should have treated the pardon routinely. News judgment is the most subjective of exercises; one editor's excess is another's sobriety. But Shaw's overall appraisal seems valid. Coverage of major running stories too often does take on a pendulum effect. The encouraging thing is that more and more journalists are worried about...
Leonard B. Boudin, former defense counsel for Daniel Ellsberg '52, said last night that President Ford's pardon of Nixon for Watergate-related crimes was "irrational" and that the House Judiciary Committee made a "serious error" in avoiding impeachment proceedings after former President Richard M. Nixon's resignation...
...Assuming the president can acquit himself, can the president also designate a successor who will eventually pardon him?" Boudin asked before an audience of 150 at the Law School...
Boudin noted that a pardon had been granted during the Civil War for offenses specifically relating to the Confederate rebellion but that the Nixon pardon did not specify any type of offense...
...said Ford's original suggestion of a pardon for all Watergate offenders was "logical" because such a pardon would specify offenses. However, he said the American people would not accept such a broad measure to "wash Watergate down the drain...