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...aloud, wrote in a few changes to make it flow more easily, and added the line referring to Nixon's health. Then he moved to a small adjoining office and began phoning congressional leaders; he had not previously informed them?or Jaworski ?of the highly secret decision to pardon...
...good conscience support the President's decision, even though I knew he took the action in good conscience." Republicans, who had delightedly looked forward to the deflation of Watergate as a major issue in November, now dejectedly faced the prospect of defending to the voters Ford's grant of pardon...
...real question is whether justice ?and the country?have been served by giving Nixon a pardon. The American people deserve to know the entire story of Watergate. They do not know it yet, and the person who is in the best position to tell them?because he has the fullest knowledge of it?is Richard Nixon. If he had been brought to court, Nixon would have been under intense political pressure to divulge the full truth under oath. His degree of guilt or innocence would have been established by the law, and any claims that he had been hounded...
...Well," said California's Democratic Representative Don Edwards, "that's the end of the honeymoon." That curt comment may prove to be as good a summary as any of the political consequences of President Ford's complete pardon of Richard Nixon. Democrats were almost unanimously opposed. Most of those Republicans who agreed to comment said that they favored the pardon. "It was the only decent and prudent course to follow," declared Barry Goldwater. Many Republicans were distressed, however, and the abrupt resignation of Ford's press secretary in protest against his boss's decision could...
Unlike Richard Nixon's resignation, which had been expected for days before it occurred, his pardon by Ford came as a complete surprise. "You've just ruined my day," groaned James Giller, a Manhattan computer analyst, reflecting what may be a widespread reaction to the President's most important decision thus...