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Particularly troubling to me as a Christian is the fact that President Ford appeals to his conscience "as a humble servant of God" in granting this pardon. Unlike Mr. Ford, I serve a God who is a God of justice as well as a God of mercy. By him, kings and paupers shall one day be judged alike...
...follow and react to big political developments, though not to the rancorous extremes of a few years ago. Not surprisingly, President Ford's promise of limited amnesty for Viet Nam War-era deserters and draft dodgers won him a measure of popularity in campus communities, while his full pardon of former President Nixon produced cries of outrage. On a Sunday evening a student called a talk show in Lawrence, Kans., and suggested that instead of pardoning Nixon, Ford should have urged him to go to Canada...
TerHorst's sudden resignation over the Nixon pardon appears to have ended that blissful phase, drained the high hopes and seriously smudged the Administration's credibility. TerHorst learned of the pardon only late the day before it was made public, when an inner group of White House aides approached him about arrangements for Ford's announcement. It was not the first time in the past week that terHorst had been kept in the dark about an important presidential decision. White House aides misled him into telling reporters that General Alexander M. Haig Jr. would remain...
Even before the pardon, there were signs in the press that skepticism was beginning to revive. Editorial writers on both right and left began to complain about Ford's vacillation on the issue of amnesty for draft evaders. A number of columnists chided Ford for his inaction on the problem of inflation. Typical of them was the Washington Post's Tom Braden, who labeled Ford's summit conference on the economy as "public relations and nothing more...
...pardon decision was like gasoline poured on those smoldering doubts. The Baltimore Sun called the move "an affront to the principle of equal justice under law, the very foundation of our legal system." NBC News Anchor Man John Chancellor said that he thought terHorst "did exactly the right thing" in resigning over the pardon. Even the Grand Rapids Press, Ford's home-town paper, asked: "How can President Ford clear himself with the public after telling Congress, during his vice-presidential nomination hearing, that a President would have the power to pardon his predecessor, 'but the people wouldn...