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...panelists backing Ford has doubts about him because of his pardon of Richard Nixon. Voicing many of these suspicions, Marie Flaherty, the wife of an insurance salesman in St. Petersburg, Fla., said: "I think it was planned between Ford and Nixon." The pardon also rankles with two out of three panelists supporting Carter. Said Dorothy Duncan, a conservative Democrat from Salem, Va.: "Nixon should have been treated like any other man and gotten the punishment that any other man would have gotten." In addition, six out of ten Carter supporters shared the complaint of Isabelle Sullivan, a blue-collar Democrat...
...Pardon, amnesty, forgiveness [Sept. 6]. No, never...
Jimmy Carter exhibited a tremendous amount of courage in making his policy statement on amnesty and pardon at an American Legion convention, in view of the paranoid patriotism that is always present...
...pardon would grant forgiveness in the hope that this country can get behind it the nightmare of Viet...
...N.P.A., Victor Corpuz, and Benigno Aquino Jr., the former Liberal Party leader and presidential candidate, who has been confined for the past four years on dubious charges that he was an N.P.A. leader.* They will almost surely be convicted, but they stand a good chance of a presidential pardon if they make confessions and come over to the government side...