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Gerald Ford

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Post Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:33 am

uh yeah, except that to pardon someone for a crime (and for them to plead guilty to anything, implicitly or explicitly) there must be a trial/proceeding listing the charges, and then a conviction.

dirty hands will wash each other

p.s. my moral center tells me it's not wrong to eat babies, so don't come to my baby-BBQ this 4th of july with the cops at your side, ok?

Post Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:35 pm

You're just a cannibal.

I wasn't happy with the Burdick case as far as it goes, not if Ford was relying upon it.

And actually, I found an interview transcript where Ford at that time that the acceptance of a pardon can be "interpreted" to be an admission of guilt. So he did even emphasize it as an out and out admission when it may have helped him to do so.

Water under the bridge for sure as both he and Nixon have passed on.

Post Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:58 pm

it's not really water(gate) under the bridge though is it? because the stink of Watergate is still having it's effect today. I think it permanently damaged the office of the Presidency although Ford and Carter did a lot to heal that damage, and doesn't every Presidential scandal get called something-Gate? I don't think Americans will ever automatically trust their Presidents ever again, not in the way they used to before Nixon.

and Gerry Ford will be remembered as a decent guy, whereas Tricky Dicky will always be synonymous with lies and corruption.

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