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...first shocked reaction to Ford's deal with Nixon, there were some too-hasty proposals. One was that the Watergate grand jury be asked to go ahead and investigate and indict Nixon despite the pardon. Jaworski promptly and properly rejected that. Another was that Congress revive the impeachment proceedings and complete the formal record of Nixon's wrongdoing as President. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino just as promptly and properly dismissed that notion. Both ideas are flawed because they would involve employing constitutional processes for purposes other than the ones for which they were intended. The approaches...
Nixon has been subpoenaed as a witness at the trial and perhaps may be called to testify in others. Legal experts believe that, for the most part, the pardon ended his right to refuse to testify on the grounds of selfincrimination. He can now plead that Fifth Amendment right only if his answers could be used against him in some future state prosecution, which seems to be a rather remote possibility. Thus, scholars like-Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz expect "a gushing forth" of new evidence about Watergate from the trials...
...debate over President Ford's pardon of his predecessor, the question of Richard Nixon's health emerged last week as a tantalizing issue. What role Nixon's mental and physical condition played in Ford's decision, and indeed what that condition was, were topics of conflicting reports and endless speculation. At week's end one fact became known: in a new attack of thrombophlebitis, Nixon has another painful blood clot in his left...
When he announced the pardon, Ford spoke of the allegations and accusations against Nixon as a threat to his health. Within the White House there was-and is-a widespread conviction that Nixon's state of health is precarious, and this view was apparently a factor in the President's decision to grant the pardon now. A report that Julie Nixon Eisenhower had made a tearful plea to Ford on her father's behalf was emphatically denied by her husband David, but other intermediaries could have brought Ford such a message. The President may also have been...
...days after the pardon, Tricia Nixon Cox's husband Edward telephoned the Associated Press to report that the former President "is in a deep depression" despite the pardon. Cox would not allow his name to be used in the report. Later in the week, David Eisenhower focused on his father-in-law's physical condition, which he said was poor...