Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford's concern for Nixon's welfare was a more credible reason for the timing of the pardon. Accusations were hanging over Nixon's head "like a sword," Ford said, "and threaten his health as he tries to reshape his life." If he was prosecuted, he "would be cruelly and excessively penalized" and "Richard Nixon and his loved ones have suffered enough," concluded the President. Nixon has certainly suffered in being forced out of office, of course, but election to that office is a public trust, not a position to which...
...There is no accurate measure yet of the internal disintegration of Nixon himself. But the toll being taken among those men who served Nixon during the Watergate crimes is terrible. Wives have turned against husbands. Children have turned against fathers. Jobs are difficult to find. Immense legal debts threaten to burden families for the rest of their lives...
...perhaps Bunting was too optimistic in her assumption that the "workers" of Harvard and Radcliffe could devour through all the paper that separated the two institutions. For years, loyal Harvardians have argued against any change in the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship that could remotely threaten the "10,000 men of Harvard" syndrome...
...always be financial security, the argument begins. To ensure this security, Harvard must maintain and increase the current levels of support it receives from alumni and friends. So no discussion about the Harvard-Radcliffe future alternatives can even be initiated if there is a chance that the outcome could threaten the present money-flow to Harvard. The argument goes on to suggest that Harvard can not possibly reduce the numbers of men it educates in any efforts to increase the numbers of women because of the two pronged threat such action would pose to future contributions. First, many current alumni...
...committee have at least expressed a willingness to consider the size increase. Most of the older committee members appear to fear the prospect posed by Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, that any decrease in the number of men at Harvard could seriously threaten efforts to maintain existing levels of alumni donations...