Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Areeda said Sunday that he would act as a "general adviser" to the president and do "whatever I'm asked to do." He said he "would not be surprised" if his job included advising the president on legal questions arising from the pardon of former President Nixon...
PERHAPS A RESTORATION of insular compassion in American life is possible. If Vietnamese were recognized as people, just plain folks, bombing them would have been harder. The same generosity that produced the Nixon pardon might be extended to less well-known criminals. Blacks entering Boston schools might be recognized as not just "black." There is surprisingly low racial consciousness on Martha's Vineyard...
...case, and he may well furnish information about the Watergate cover-up that could clinch the arguments of the prosecution. At the same time, however, at least one of the Watergate defendants has already indicated that he wants Nixon to testify as a defense witness. Before Ford's pardon, Ehrlichman subpoenaed Nixon to testify, hoping apparently that Nixon would support his claim that he was led into thinking that national-security considerations justified the coverup...
...noted economists together for the first of eleven minisummits (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Later, at the Continental Congress ceremony in Philadelphia, the President predicted that the nation would defeat "the tyranny of double-digit inflation" before the Bicentennial climax in July 1976. As if to set the stage for his pardon of Richard Nixon, Ford also announced that on the ticklish issue of amnesty for Viet Nam War deserters and draft evaders, he plans to create a clemency review board to set policy on a case-by-case basis...
Areeda said yesterday that he would act as a "general adviser" to the president and do "whatever I'm asked to do." He said he "would not be surprised" if his job included advising the president on legal questions arising from the pardon of former President Nixon...