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Leonard B. Boudin, former defense counsel for Daniel Ellsberg '52, said last night that President Ford's pardon of Nixon for Watergate-related crimes was "irrational" and that the House Judiciary Committee made a "serious error" in avoiding impeachment proceedings after former President Richard M. Nixon's resignation...
...Assuming the president can acquit himself, can the president also designate a successor who will eventually pardon him?" Boudin asked before an audience of 150 at the Law School...
...there been any further reasons for deciding so abruptly to give Nixon his pardon? What precisely was the role of Haig in the whole affair? One former top White House aide has said that he believes Ford gave the pardon so early because he did not want the case dragging through the courts when he ran for election...
...still got a lot to do. We'll decide after the recess." When Congress reconvenes following the elections, Hungate's subcommittee could vote to hold more hearings. A probable star witness: Alexander Haig. For Jerry Ford and the G.O.P., the problems of the pardon are far from over...
...presidential barnstorming's impact on the congressional elections next month may be entirely uncertain; but Ford's road show is more evidence that the new President is fighting a good campaign against self-isolation. No matter what they say now about the economy, oil and the Nixon pardon being Ford's main problems, his biggest battle is with himself. The kind of frontal criticism Ford is getting usually encourages a President to seek protection. Behind him the Oval Office enlarges the impulse, offering opulent seclusion as the angry world goes...