It's Official: Nixon Is the Worst - By Charles P. Pierce - Esquire

[Uncle Joe]

2. Nixon of course would also go on to pardon war criminal Calley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley


William Laws Calley, Jr.[1] (born June 8, 1943) is a former United States U.S. Army officer found guilty of murdering hundreds of unarmed, innocent South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War. After several reductions, Calley’s original sentence of life in prison was turned into an order of house arrest, but after three years, President Nixon reduced his sentence with a presidential pardon. [2][3]

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The events in My Lai had initially been covered up by the U.S. Army. [8] In April 1969, nearly thirteen months after the massacre, Ron Ridenhour, a G.I. who had been with the 11th Brigade, wrote letters to the President, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of Defense. In these letters Ridenhour described some of the atrocities by the soldiers at My Lai that he had been told about.

Calley was charged on September 5, 1969 with six specifications of premeditated murder for the deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians near the village of My Lai, at a hamlet called Son My, more commonly called My Lai in the U.S. press. As many as 500 villagers--mostly women, children, infants, and the elderly--had been systematically killed by American soldiers during a bloody rampage on March 16, 1968. Upon conviction, Calley could have faced the death penalty.

On November 12, 1969, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh broke the story[9] and revealed that Calley was charged with murdering 109 Vietnamese.[10]

Thanks for the thread, WillyT.