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...JANUARY 21, the day following his inauguration, President Jimmy Carter fulfilled one of his major campaign promises by issuing a blanket pardon to all those who had peacefully refused to register for the draft or be inducted into the armed services during the Vietnam War. By granting the pardon Carter hoped to bring America's tragic Vietnam experience to an end. Unfortunately, the pardon, while a step in the right direction, does not go nearly far enough...
...have been in the military for six years. I consider it an honor to serve my country. But if blanket pardon is given to these people who chose to leave America in time of need, I'll keep it in mind for the next war we have. I just won't go. What difference will it make? I'll just be pardoned later, anyway...
...subject of Viet Nam. Which was understandable enough. Said he: "Viet Nam has been the dominant factor of American life for the past 15 years. It would be a strange class that wouldn't bring up the subject." The students applauded when McGovern hailed President Carter's pardon of draft evaders, then wondered aloud whether "the men who conducted the war in Viet Nam may be the ones in need of a pardon...
Carter's pardon was carefully limited. He excluded those few draft dodgers who had used "force and violence" to stay out of uniform. More important, he did not forgive the 4,500 deserters still at large, or the 88,700 who received less than honorable discharges for deserting or going AWOL. He simply asked the Pentagon to review their cases with the aim of possibly upgrading some discharges. Finally, Carter promised to begin another study of the estimated 173,000 undesirable discharges that had been dispensed during the Viet Nam years. Pentagon critics claim that many men received such...
...home "now that your ships are sunk," she was convicted of treason in 1949 after her return to the U.S. She served more than six years in prison, then moved to Chicago where she has been managing an Oriental import shop. Three times she has asked for a presidential pardon-"a measure of vindication." On his last full day as President, Gerald Ford agreed and granted D'Aquino, now 60, a "full and unconditional" pardon on the grounds that it was "the right thing to do and the proper time...