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...repeatedly said that you would issue a blanket pardon for all Viet Nam draft resisters in your first week in office. Is that a promise you intend to keep...
...investigation of his campaign finances by the Watergate special prosecutor; the inquiry that plagued his campaign for three weeks was prompted by a single informant, whose identity is still not known. Ford's chief campaign asset was probably his character. The President appeared straightforward and reliable. Only his pardon of Nixon was held against him as a moral question mark. Ford hoped that his openness would have more appeal to the voters than Carter's enigmas...
Simon said Carter's proposed "pardon" would benefit only 4400 draft evaders, the "whitest and best-off group financially," and would subject deserters to a case-by-case review which the speakers said would be slow and inherently discriminatory
Grant a blanket pardon to the draft dodgers of the Viet Nam War. Also, he probably would set up review boards to decide the cases of war-era deserters and perhaps pardon those who went AWOL because of opposition...
Another famous verdict of the 1930s was reversed-and officially so-when Alabama Governor George Wallace signed a full pardon for Clarence Norris, 64, believed to be the last survivor of the "Scottsboro Boys." Norris was 19 when he and eight other black youths were hauled off a freight train, prosecuted for raping two white women and quickly sentenced to death. It was a verdict that aroused worldwide protest and involved years of appeals. After five years on death row, Norris was reprieved, served another ten years in prison, won a parole, then fled to New York, where...