Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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September 9: Ford postones his announcement of an amnesty plan for deserters and draft dodgers. His interim press secretary, John Hushen, is asked whether that means Ford thought Nixon's pardon was more important than amnesty. "That's a conclusion you can draw..." he replies...
September 16: Ford tells a press conference that there was "very persuasive evidence" that Nixon committed impeachable crimes. But he defends his "full, free and absolute" pardon of Nixon, saying it will heal America's wounds. He announces a plan of conditional amnesty for deserters and draft dodgers, requiring most to perform alternate service for two years--"earned re-entry," he calls it. He says that CIA subversion of the Allende government was in Chile's best interest, "and certainly in our best interest." He indicates such activity will continue in other countries...
...same day, a House Judiciary Sub-committee receives Ford's response to its request for more information on why he pardoned Nixon. Ford sends chairman William Hungate (D-Mo,) his September 8 pardon message, a packet of press statements, and a brief cover letter telling the congressman to put the issue behind them...
Rockefeller tells the Senate Judiciary Committee that Nixon's acceptance of the pardon was an admission of guilt. But he defends Ford for granting...
...least, Shannon's fears seem to have been ungrounded. At Ford's last press conference--the one where he defended the Central Intelligence Agency's intervention in Chile and his own pardon of Nixon--reporters fired a whole battery of hostile questions at him. But the barrage doesn't explain the earlier backing and filling--if anything, it appears to make it more puzzling...