Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the presidential campaign Carter said he would grant a blanket "pardon" to the 4000 or so draft resisters still wanted by the military, and that he would consider the 30,000-90,000 deserters on a case-by-case basis. He said nothing about the 800,000 Vietnam-era vets with less-than-honorable discharges, the million who failed to register for the draft and are therefore liable for prosecution, and the thousands of civilian war resisters. A fair amnesty should include all these categories...
...should be an amnesty, which makes no judgment, as opposed to a pardon, which implies guilt. Many who are eligible for amnesty or a pardon have indicated they would refuse to accept the latter, since they do not believe they committed a crime by refusing to participate in an unjust...
Jimmy Carter has nothing to lose by declaring a universal, unconditional amnesty. Groups like the VFW and the American Legion, who are adamantly opposed to any form of amnesty, will probably protest even if Carter proclaims only a partial amnesty or "pardon." But a limited amnesty would generate protests indefinitely among the excluded victims of the Vietnam tragedy. It would certainly subvert any goal of reconciliation...
...There is no question that Watergate and the pardon had an impact, a serious impact, on my election possibility...
...people have been "examined" by an electronic brain at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Health Sciences in Madison. The computer does not diagnose ailments or prescribe pills, but it comes close. After analyzing the patients' answers, and confessing a few limitations of its own ("Pardon me a few minutes while I compute"), it calculates their chances for good health and long life. It also tells how to improve those odds...