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...Within minutes of the resignation speech, Leon Jaworski pointedly announced that so far as Nixon's immunity from criminal prosecution was concerned, "the special prosecutor's office was not asked for any . . . and offered none." The next day, when reporters asked about the possibility of a future pardon should Nixon need one, new Press Secretary J.F. terHorst reiterated Gerald Ford's response at his vice-presidential confirmation hearing: "I do not think the public would stand for it." That judgment was made in other circumstances, and is surely subject to change as public attitudes toward Nixon become...
TIME did learn, however, that all last week negotiations went on between law yers of some cover-up defendants and the White House in hopes of arranging a pardon. Then at the last minute, said a source close to one defendant, "Nixon screwed us," and, properly and wisely, nothing was done for his former aides and agents. There was also speculation that Nixon could have pardoned himself, but Press Secretary terHorst reported that Nixon had taken no such in glorious, secret action before leaving office. Doubtless he had probably not even considered...
...Nixon should be thinking less about impeachment than about a sort of plea-bargaining at the very highest level. This official suggested to TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that the President should tell Vice President Gerald Ford that he is prepared to resign provided Ford would grant him an Executive pardon for any subsequent criminal indictments. Assuming that such a procedure would be politically and legally acceptable (and this is by no means certain), it would assure Nixon that as a private citizen he could not be indicted, tried and perhaps convicted for obstruction of justice or any other alleged wrongdoing...
...time on that." In the Judiciary version, it becomes: "His price is pretty high, but at least, uh, we should, we should buy the time on that, uh, as I pointed out to John." When Presidential Assistant John Ehrlichman mentioned that Hunt also wanted to get a pardon, Nixon, in the Judiciary version, replies: "I know ... I mean he's got to get that by Christmas time." The White House version also included this remark, but attributed it to John Dean rather than to the President...
...discussed by the President and Ehrlichman. Ehrlichman later recalled before a Watergate grand jury that he held a "very long, rambling conversation" with the President on or about July 4, 1972. Testified Ehrlichman: "We talked about the Watergate defendants, and I raised the point with the President that presidential pardons or something of that kind inevitably would be a question that he would have to confront." Ehrlichman added in his testimony that Nixon expressed the "firm view [that] he would never be in a position to grant a pardon or any form of clemency in this case." Despite Ehrlichman...