Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner had Ford made his broadcast remarks than the nation ?which had been caught totally by surprise?was plunged anew into deep and divisive debate. Republicans generally applauded the President's action; Democrats generally condemned it (see following story). Supporters agreed with Ford that his predecessor had indeed "suffered enough." Critics, including many legal experts, charged that Ford had established a dual system of justice, that he had put Richard Nixon above the law. On all sides, there were grave questions about the ways in which the pardon would affect the men currently jailed or awaiting trial for Watergate...
Excerpts from the President's statement pardoning his predecessor...
...consciences, are superior to it. As we are a nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God. And I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience ... to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, Richard Nixon. and his loyal wife and family...
...press conference was his first as President but the 56th that he has held since Dec. 6, when he was inaugurated as Vice President. It took place in the White House's East Room, which was jammed with newsmen, just as it had been for his predecessor's infrequent sessions with reporters-37 in 5½ years as President. But there the resemblance to the Nixon press conferences ended...
...report to rest forever by issuing WASH-1400. This new study, a 3,300-page, 14-volume document that cost $3 million and took 60 specialists two years to research and write, is called An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants. Like its predecessor, its argument is statistical. The probability of any conventional water-cooled reactor's having an accident in any given year that might kill 1,000 people, the researchers reckon, is about the same as that of a meteor's striking a U.S. population center and killing 1,000 people...