Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lieut. Calley is freed by a presidential pardon, it will be the first sign of compassion that Richard Nixon has shown in his 26 months as President. Predictably, it will be for a convicted murderer...
Nixon could pull off the political maneuver of the decade by letting this thing go on till election eve, then granting a full pardon...
...front-page editorial titled "Obituary U.S. Army"?and sold out the issue. "The death was announced by a general court-martial of six men," the editorial said. "Pallbearers will include Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGovern. Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers as fast as he could turn them out. Two radio stations in North Carolina and one in Roswell, N. Mex., announced that they would suspend broadcasts of Army public-service messages...
...visitation list." All of which makes for a curious, almost pseudo confinement, one dictated not by the gravity of Galley's crimes as much as by the anticipation of public reaction to the price he must pay for them, a bounty of possibilities ranging from life imprisonment to executive pardon...
Instead, Ashman got a job teaching political science at California's University of the Pacific in 1968. He left five months later, apparently when the university discovered that he was a Florida parole violator. Undaunted, Ashman won a pardon and in 1969 began soliciting donations from San Francisco businessmen to launch what he called the American Public Affairs Foundation. It soon collapsed: the Better Business Bureau issued a warning that he was misrepresenting himself. Riverside University hired Ashman 16 months later...