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Irons said yesterday he applied for the pardon in September 1974, when Ford announced a clemency program for Vietnam draft resisters who performed alternate service...
Comment from the Justice Department staff and Ford's transition team was unavailable yesterday, but a White House spokesman said Ford pardoned "a very small number of draft resisters," and that most of them performed some kind of alternate service in return for the pardon...
...didn't expect to get a pardon from Ford," Irons said. "I was doing it partly to harrass them, and partly to make a political point...
...pardon--which Irons said looks like "an elementary school perfect attendance record"--does not affect Irons's status with the Massachusetts bar, but he said it could help if he wishes to practice in other states that do not allow convicted felons to practice...
...White House spokesman said Irons could not receive a presidential pardon under President Carter's program for draft resisters, because that program, like Ford's applies only to people who resisted the draft after...