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Ford pardoned Nixon on this date in 1974. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
OP
I can respect your point of view but Ford got a Profile In Courage award for the pardon
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2020
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cilla4progress
(24,728 posts)1. And I, as a college sophomore at
University of Vermont, along with 10s if not 100s of my fellow class members DEMONSTRATED when Ford came to campus afterwards!!
Got all up in their grills.
Alas...
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. I like him nonetheless.
johnp3907
(3,730 posts)3. And the nation never recovered.
Probably never will. This showed that the scumbags can get away with anything. And so they have.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)5. I can respect your point of view but Ford got a Profile In Courage award for the pardon
President Gerald Ford was honored for his courage in making a controversial decision of conscience to pardon former President Richard M. Nixon. On September 8, 1974, President Ford granted a full, free and absolute pardon to former President Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he...has committed or may have committed or taken part in while he was president. Nixon accepted the pardon. The response from the press, Congress and the general public was overwhelmingly negative. Appearing before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, President Ford explained under oath, in the first sworn congressional testimony ever given by a sitting president, that there were no deals connected with the pardon. Ford wrote in his autobiography that Nixon's pardon wasn't motivated primarily by sympathy for his plight or by concern over the state of his health. It was the state of the countrys health at home and around the world that worried me. In 1976, President Ford lost the White House to Jimmy Carter in one of the closest elections in American history. Many historians believe Fords pardon of Nixon contributed to his defeat.
Gerald Ford was a mensch. When he was on the football team at the University of Michigan he refused to stay at a hotel where his Black teammate was refused accommodations. As an ex- president he wrote an amicus brief in favor of his alma mater's affirmative action program when it was challenged in the Supreme Court.
hunter
(38,311 posts)4. I don't hate Ford.
Not like I hate Reagan and Reagan Republicans.
Or Trump.
Ford is a Schwarzenegger on my scale of Republican bullshit.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)6. You have to work to hate Ford and Schawrzenegger.
I would never vote for them but they weren't fundamentally evil like Trump.
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)7. "Our long national nightmare is over . . . . . "
Hardly . . . . . .
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)8. I was appalled then, and I still am.
Nixon should have died in prison.