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Ford pardoned Nixon for very good reasons. (none / 0) (#6)
by FlaDemFem on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 02:45:11 PM EST
The country had already gone through endless Watergate hearings and the resignation in disgrace of the President, and the other participants were in the process of being tried and convicted. If Nixon had been prosecuted, it would have brought the government back to the slow grind it was during Watergate, all the resources of Congress concentrated on one issue. It would also have split the country even more than it was and brought the Presidency into even more disrepute. You had to be there, I guess, to understand why Ford pardoned Nixon and not mind a bit. I hated, and still do hate, Nixon with a passion, but I understood why Ford pardoned him. Enough was enough.

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whether justified or not, (none / 0) (#8)
by jeffinalabama on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 02:56:54 PM EST
it did set a precedent for pardoning before the fact, didn't it? That's a legal question, and IANOL. It's the first one I know about, anyway.

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Articles of impeachment had already been (none / 0) (#20)
by FlaDemFem on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 04:56:31 PM EST
drawn up in Congress. Nixon was informed of this and decided to resign. There was nothing "before the fact" about it. The crimes he would have been tried for, and quite probably found guilty of, had already been made public and discussed for months and months. Everyone knew what he had done, and who had helped him do it. The helpers went to jail. He got off with a pardon because the cost to the country of a trial was thought to be great. We were all so tired of it all. We all knew what he had been pardoned for, we didn't need a trial and conviction to rehash the whole thing all over again.

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