Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he announced the pardon, Ford spoke of the allegations and accusations against Nixon as a threat to his health. Within the White House there was-and is-a widespread conviction that Nixon's state of health is precarious, and this view was apparently a factor in the President's decision to grant the pardon now. A report that Julie Nixon Eisenhower had made a tearful plea to Ford on her father's behalf was emphatically denied by her husband David, but other intermediaries could have brought Ford such a message. The President may also have been...
...days after the pardon, Tricia Nixon Cox's husband Edward telephoned the Associated Press to report that the former President "is in a deep depression" despite the pardon. Cox would not allow his name to be used in the report. Later in the week, David Eisenhower focused on his father-in-law's physical condition, which he said was poor...
Seeking sun and solace, Nixon had moved from one opulent California fortress to another. Just before the pardon was announced, he and Pat left fog-shrouded San Clemente and drove 150 miles east to the 200-acre Palm Springs estate of his friend Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Britain. But his swollen and painful leg kept Nixon indoors, away from the 18-hole golf course and eleven gravity-fed lakes and pools. On Thursday night two helicopters carried the former President and his entourage back to San Clemente. The next morning Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, flew...
When the historians look back to these weeks, they may find that the worst error was Richard Nixon's. Right now, the egg is on Gerald Ford's face. But Nixon accepted the pardon that Ford offered. Once again Nixon has miscalculated almost everything and everybody. He has charted himself a course straight into the sloughs of history...
...Nixon goes on in his special fantasy, searching for the miracle. His statement after the pardon about having made "mistakes" in dealing with Watergate is the same old line. Others were at fault. All he did was make a few procedural and administrative errors. One can almost hear the onetime words of Ron Ziegler that "contrition is bullshit," or Nixon's own assessment of the Republican Judiciary Committee members who turned against Nixon when the last transcript revealed his lying. "Soft bastards," he said...