Word: pardoner
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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...
...Spanish inquisitors felt that they had a holy cause, but they are remembered only for their cruelty. President Ford saw to the heart of the matter, and recognized the rightness of pardon. He may have saved us all from going down in history as the generation of punishment and retribution...
...should hold a new presidential election in view of Gerald Ford's latest decision to pardon Nixon...
...Communist Party, newspaper coverage of Gerald Ford has gone through four periods. Three drastic shifts have occurred practically overnight, just like shifts in the party line. It's true that they've synchronized with public events--Ford's appointment to the vice-presidency, Nixon's resignation, and Ford's pardon of Nixon. But none of these events showed a side of Ford entirely unrelated to what he was before...
...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...