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Selling for $3.95, the bracelets supposedly have an all-purpose message. "You can wear the bracelet until the man is either indicted, convicted, pardoned or paroled, depending on your point of view," says Louis Lerner, one of the three entrepreneurs. "What we're really hoping for is that on Jan. 19, 1977, Nixon gives them all a presidential pardon, so that all the wearers can take off their bracelets and throw them in one loud crash on the marble floors of America. Or they can send them back for recycling for the next scandal...
...with a single Icelandic escort and walked around chatting amiably with other strollers. The local press did not make much of his one bad gaffe. Speaking with reporters on the plane while flying from Washington to Iceland, Nixon had referred to the island nation as "you'll pardon the expression, a Godforsaken place...
IONCE had a theory that country music was invented by AM-rock songwriters to make their product sound intelligent by comparison. After all, not even "Jeremiah was a bullfrog..." would find Tammy Wynette a hard act to follow. And if lyrics like "I beg your pardon,/ I never promised you a rosegarden..." wouldn't send you begging for a copy of James Brown's "Hot Pants," it's doubtful that anything would. Good country music has largely been a triumph of performance over material, and there is no question that any first-rate country guitarist, fiddler, or banjo player could...
...Alright, that's all. I'll get you a parole--maybe use an executive pardon. Go raise some money for the National Committee...
...Pardon you for what? You aren't in jail...