Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know a lot of people, and I can understand it, say 'Gee whiz, it just isn't fair, you know, for an individual to, ah, get off with a pardon simply because he happens to have been President, and when another individual goes to trial, and maybe had to serve a prison sentence for it.' I can understand how they feel. I can only say that ... no one can know how it feels to resign the presidency of the United States. Is that punishment enough? Oh, probably not. But, whether...
...Debts. If the request for a rehearing comes to naught, Mitchell will be the first U.S. Attorney General ever to serve a prison term. A friend of his told TIME that Mitchell had gone on hoping for a presidential pardon until last November, when Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter. Mitchell has some investment income but is no longer allowed to practice law (he once earned $250,000 annually as a municipal bond lawyer), and friends say he is burdened by enormous debts...
This week's fourth installment in the Nixon-Frost series will cover the ex-President's tax problems, his assets, the role of the CIA in covert operations (including Chile), Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation, Nixon's final days in office and his pardon...
...Including F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 Nosferatu, the celebrated 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, Roman Polanski's 1967 black comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, a 1970 skinflick called Does Dracula Suck? and the 1974 X-rated Andy Warhol's Dracula...
...release for the prisoners, but Chavis says he has little hope of that. Nor is he confident about an FBI investigation ordered by Attorney General Griffin Bell. The best hope for the Wilmington Ten, he said, lies in marshaling public pressure on the President to urge a North Carolina pardon for them. "We are political prisoners," he says, "and in political-prisoner situations, the public decides the case, not the courts...