Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supper, and then for the night; the weather was dreadful, she said, and her husband was in town on business. She later goes to his room and offers herself. The doctor tells her she has changed, become cold, indifferent and calculating, while Maria says that she "needs no pardon" and argues that it is all the doctor's projection of his own feelings. They make love. The next morning, Maria's husband attempts suicide. Though she must have come to his aid at some point, when he committed the act and cried out for help, she was repelled, and refused...
Hoffa's probation ends next month, and he is now hoping that the legal restrictions on his union activities will be dropped, either by presidential pardon or by a direct challenge in court. If he succeeds, he might easily win back the Teamsters presidency, and that prospect does not particularly please either Fitz or the Nixon Administration. Said one labor observer: "Hoffa is too unpredictable...
...hide behind legalisms? The time has come to repair the fabric of our society. One step which will speed that agonizing process would be a Presidential pardon to those who evaded military service. While these individuals have not suffered the fate of prisoners of war in North Vietnam, they are "prisoners of the war" in the sense that they left our country to avoid participation in a war started by forces beyond their control...
...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...