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...been banished by Nixon's departure. Theologians criticized the manner in which Ford linked his decision to prayers and "the laws of God." Similarly, in a typical riposte, Senator Sam Ervin noted that Nixon had not been required to admit his guilt in return for the pardon, and added: "The pardon power vested in the President exceeds that of the Almighty, who apparently cannot pardon a sinner unless the sinner first repents" (see TIME ESSAY page...
...Ford, who had moved so swiftly to heal the nation's wounds caused by Watergate and the Viet Nam War. Now, unfairly but inevitably, his previously announced intention of seeking leniency for draft evaders and war deserters was seen by many as a calculated move to make a Nixon pardon more palatable. Those somewhat jesting earlier cracks about Ford's intellect were now reviewed in a more serious light. How could he have failed to perceive the ramifications?legal, political and moral?of his decision...
...Ford just another devious politician? Particularly among the young, the answer was a disquietingly prevalent yes. NIXON, FORD, ROCKY, THE SAME OLD SHIT, declared the complaint stenciled on an American flag at the University of Wisconsin. The Nixon pardon coming on the same day as Evel Knievel's canyon plunge, declared Wisconsin Student Michael Stiklstad, amounted to "the two biggest rip-offs of the public in one day in the history of the country...
...painstaking investigation and prosecution of the Watergate crimes were about to be cast aside merely to spare Citizen Nixon further anguish. Most alarmed was Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's staff, which had already lost one of its stars, Counsel Philip Lacovara, 31, who quit because of the Nixon pardon. Hasty calls were placed to Ford's top counsel, Philip Buchen, who professed surprise that any such study was under way. Later he assured the Jaworski prosecutors that no blanket pardons were imminent...
...wholesale pardons. All that had been meant, it was explained, was that individual requests for pardons would be considered in the customary manner when and if they arose. If that was true, neither Ford nor his aides had tried to make it clear earlier, and the confusion naturally raised suspicions that the blanket-pardon idea might have been floated as a trial balloon. It was promptly shot down by a new wave of protest, including an overwhelming (55 to 24) sense-of-the-Senate resolution that no further presidential pardons be given in any Watergate case until trials have been...