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...news of President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon hit TIME staffers when most were just beginning to recover from closing the magazine. At 9:15 a.m. Sunday, Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo was alerted to the pending announcement. Correspondents from Los Angeles to Boston went into high gear, while from backyards and boats, beaches and in a few cases beds, some 45 researchers, reporters, copyreaders, production and layout specialists, photographers and editors headed for midtown Manhattan, many in blue jeans. Senior Editor Marshall Loeb had been asleep only a few hours when he was called in from Westchester...
...therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Rich ard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969, through Au gust...
Little Leverage. Unless Congress recommends otherwise or Ford intervenes with a pardon (although a pardon before an indictment apparently is unprecedented), Nixon's most probable trial role may well be as a defendant. He conceivably could attempt to plea bargain with Jaworski, although he has little leverage remaining for that purpose, considering the evidence against him already on record and the fact that there is no higher official that Jaworski could seek to indict. Only a detailed admission of guilt, including his cover-up activities relating to such defendants as Ehrlichman, Haldeman and John Mitchell, would be likely...
Without immunity or a pardon - and now without access to Government-paid attorneys - Nixon's legal fees could easily hit six figures. By resigning, the former President saved his annual retirement pay of $60,000, plus $96,000 a year for staff and expenses. Even without his retirement pay, though, the ex-President would by no means face penury. Literary Agent Scott Meredith (among his clients: Spiro Agnew, Norman Mailer) announced that he had already told an inquiring Nixon aide last month that the Nixon memoirs would probably be worth $2 million, which would more than comfortably cover...
...University of Chicago's constitutional expert, Philip Kurland, comes down against trying Nixon. "Under our system of criminal justice there is never absolute equality of treatment, and the trial of Nixon would be extremely divisive for the country." His Chicago colleague, Law Professor Gerhard Casper, thinks a Ford pardon would be an "act of grace." It remains to be seen whether that view will accurately distill into the mood of the nation in the months ahead...