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...Nixon took office in 1968, Partin was relatively safe. But old and rather dubious criminal charges against him were revived when the Republicans took over the Justice Department. By then Hoffa's appeals had run out, and he was languishing in Lewisburg Penitentiary. One hope for a full pardon lay in discrediting the original prosecution against him-by establishing, for instance, that there had been illegal wiretapping. Partin would not yield...
...forgive Lyndon Johnson? What did we suffer at his hands? Pardon must come from the victims: the people of Indochina. But in evaluating the man, we might well look at his successor, who has pursued with passion Johnson's great mistake abroad and dedicated himself to tearing down at home all the ideals of a Great Society...
Forster) is a $20-a-day Hollywood private eye who wears a vest, a trench coat and a Bogart mask of cynicism. "I hope you'll pardon the way I look. I just threw something on," a pretty suspect (Jessica Walter) tells him when he rings her doorbell. "You almost missed," retorts Banyon, in a line that dates from considerably earlier than...
...begins a story that first evening but stops before its conclusion, promising to continue the following evening Intrigued the king grants her a respite, and for the next one thousand nights the strategy repeated Finally. Scheherezade, having so well entertained aimed her king, asks for and receives his pardon...
...next meeting of the pardon board is scheduled for the spring and at that time, Kimbro can reapply for a sentence reduction...