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That anger has not yet subsided, and it may yet hurt Gerald Ford for having pardoned Nixon so abruptly. When Ford hit Fresno last week in his bid for election, demonstrators carried placards that focused almost exclusively on the pardon. DOES NIXON DRIVE A FORD? asked one. BEG YOUR PARDON, said another. NIXON'S GHOST IN THE WHITE HOUSE, read a third. One Ford aide found some consolation in the timing of the Woodward-Bernstein book. "At least it's coming out now with quite a few months to die down and be forgotten, " he said. That could...
...sorry, but I'm running behind schedule.' He did not go after the suburban straphangers until it was too late. By contrast, Ford worked the fences and the police barricades as if he were L.B.J. in his prime. He deftly handled questions about everything from the Nixon pardon to the problems of Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi River at Alton, Ill., to civil rights for homosexuals ('I have always tried to be an understanding person as far as people are concerned who are different from myself). He played very well in Peoria...
...your pardon...
...Then pardon-me-whilst-Ah-whup-this-out Tim clickety-clacked the first two lines. In the ol' kontry tradition...
...member Japanese-American Citizens League is circulating a petition to have Mrs. Aquino pardoned by President Ford. "The judge sentenced the legend of Tokyo Rose," contends the league, not a real person. Mrs. Aquino is far from sanguine about the outcome of the pardon effort, but recognizes that it would at least restore her U.S. citizenship. "America is my home; it will always be my home," she declares, "and I never did anything disloyal to the country I love...