Word: pardons
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...have to deal with an image, a fix. I didn't know how to deal with LBJ until he became a war criminal and I didn't know how to deal with Ford until the pardon...
...direct causes of that beating were easily stated, indeed inescapable: the public outrage over Watergate, Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, double-digit inflation and worsening unemployment. These overriding issues coalesced to shape a generally sour mood on the part of voters that contributed either to the defeat of Republican incumbents or to the narrowness of many of their victories, whatever the quantity of purely local concerns...
...Portland translated the warm glow into some kind of G.O.P. vote. He might have picked up a jock or two in Portland's Coliseum. Then again he might have lost a million times that many ballots for the Grand Old Party by reminding people that he gave the pardon to Richard Nixon, by airlifting the presidential extravaganza all over the country while sugar hit 54? a lb. (up from 17? in January), farmers shot calves in their fields, unemployment jumped ahead and more trouble in the Middle East was confidently predicted by Jews and Arabs...
...interest rates and stronger antitrust action instead. He capitalized on his own record of holding down city property taxes by attracting new business to San Jose and landing federal funds to improve parks and the police and fire departments. Watergate was a factor, since Milias supported Ford's pardon of Nixon while Mineta protested it. Mineta is expected to push hard for federal aid in solving city problems...
...spectrum there is Lucien, who actually joins the Germans and enjoys it. Towards the end, just before the maquis raids the hotel and kills all the collaborators except Lucien, who is hidden upstairs, a captured member of the Resistance offers him a chance for pardon if he will help him escape. Lucien rejects the offer--the man has irretrievably insulted him by asking how old he is. Given an explicit chance to re-enter society and save himself, he rejects it--out of pique...