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...public popularity has plummeted as well. The Gallup poll found that 50% of those surveyed in late September, shortly after Nixon's pardon, approved of Ford's performance as President, down 21 points since a similar poll conducted about a week after he took office. It was the most precipitous two-month drop in 35 years...
Jaworski was especially emphatic on one point: he had no intention of challenging Ford's right to pardon Nixon, since he was convinced of its legality. He said it would have been "intellectually dishonest" for him to have tried to overturn the pardon in court; such "a spurious proceeding," he added, would have amounted to "unprofessional conduct" on his part. Jaworski strongly urged that his top deputy, Henry S. (Hank) Ruth Jr., be named his successor. Ruth, a quiet but effective attorney from Pennsylvania, had also served as deputy to the first special prosecutor, Archibald Cox, and had helped...
...decadent ones and think that they've found the only way to live: the only trouble is that their idea of living is more than having harmless drunken fun--they're selfish and cruel and irresponsible throughout. This is a thirties high society movie that you just can't pardon. It isn't even very witty. With Billie Burke, the Good Witch in Oz, as Youngs's puritanical wife. Hal Roach produced this in 1937; directed by Norman Macleod...
SINCE THEN, Nixon has been buffeted by the pardon backlash and a "dangerous" case of phlebitis. But he seems not to have changed his plans. Newsweek magazine's "Periscope" section, one of the few reliable "inside dope" columns, reported last week...
Most of the speakers at the recent economic summit seemed to be at the wrong meeting. Rather than participating in a war against inflation, they sounded like conscientious objectors seeking a pardon from the battle. The various groups seemed more concerned about protecting themselves against the effects of inflation. Those few who did recognize the need for belt tightening generally advocated tightening the other fellow's belt...