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Seeking sun and solace, Nixon had moved from one opulent California fortress to another. Just before the pardon was announced, he and Pat left fog-shrouded San Clemente and drove 150 miles east to the 200-acre Palm Springs estate of his friend Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Britain. But his swollen and painful leg kept Nixon indoors, away from the 18-hole golf course and eleven gravity-fed lakes and pools. On Thursday night two helicopters carried the former President and his entourage back to San Clemente. The next morning Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, flew...
When the historians look back to these weeks, they may find that the worst error was Richard Nixon's. Right now, the egg is on Gerald Ford's face. But Nixon accepted the pardon that Ford offered. Once again Nixon has miscalculated almost everything and everybody. He has charted himself a course straight into the sloughs of history...
...Nixon goes on in his special fantasy, searching for the miracle. His statement after the pardon about having made "mistakes" in dealing with Watergate is the same old line. Others were at fault. All he did was make a few procedural and administrative errors. One can almost hear the onetime words of Ron Ziegler that "contrition is bullshit," or Nixon's own assessment of the Republican Judiciary Committee members who turned against Nixon when the last transcript revealed his lying. "Soft bastards," he said...
...issues of Watergate, President Nixon's guilt or culpability, and even President Ford's pardon seemed to have played relatively small roles in the election. Most voters were much more concerned about inflation, the economy and local issues...
President Ford, invoking the name of God five times, might have thought that he was on solid theological ground in pronouncing a "full, free and absolute pardon" for former President Nixon. Ford had shown compassion and mercy, and few virtues win higher praise in sacred or contemporary theological writings. "What does the Lord require of thee," says the Book of Micah, "but to do justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians, exhorts Christians to "be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another...