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  1. www.yahoo.com › news › constitution-check-couldConstitution Check: Could Richard Nixon have been tried ...

    Jun 14, 2012 · Would President Richard Nixon have been convicted of a crime if he hadn’t resigned his office in 1974 and received a subsequent pardon? Lyle Denniston takes a new look at the constitutionality ...

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  3. www.pewresearch.org › short-reads › 2019/09/25How the Watergate crisis eroded public support for Richard ...

    Sep 25, 2019 · In September, a 58% majority said Nixon should be tried for possible criminal charges. And they took the view that he should not be let off the hook easily, if found guilty. By a margin of 53% to 38%, the public thought that President Ford should not pardon Nixon, if he was found guilty.

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  4. www.vanityfair.com › news › 2022Watergate’s Central Mystery: Why Did Nixon’s Team Order the ...

    Feb 17, 2022 · The three Nixon aides who ultimately faced charges stemming from the burglary—McCord, former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy, and one-time CIA officer E. Howard Hunt—all did have over-eager ...

  5. www.nytimes.com › live › 2024/01/09The Nixon tapes case rejected presidential immunity from a ...

    Jan 9, 2024 · Nixon was also invoked in the hearing because of his acceptance of a pardon from Gerald Ford following his resignation in connection with the Watergate scandal: Mr. Pearce said the episode ...

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  7. www.politico.eu › article › how-richard-nixon-pardonHow the Nixon pardon tore the Ford administration apart

    May 20, 2018 · In Ford’s mind, Nixon had not gotten off scot-free. Ford had come across a 1915 Supreme Court case, Burdick v. United States, which ruled that a pardon carried an “imputation of guilt,” and, therefore, accepting a pardon was, as such, “an admission of guilt.”. For a time, to justify his stunning decision, Ford kept a clipping of the ...

  8. www.whitehousehistory.org › educational-resourcesWatergate, Gerald Ford and the Nixon Pardon - White House ...

    Even if Nixon was tried, in the end, he might be found innocent; or even if not, perhaps a future president would pardon him after all the tumult.26 Ford defended his pardon decision vigorously, especially accusations that he had made a "deal" for the presidency, even appearing before a congressional committee to explain it.

  9. www.nytimes.com › nixon-ford-pardon-watergate‘No One Could Believe It’: When Ford Pardoned Nixon Four ...

    Sep 8, 2018 · After 11 a.m., Mr. Ford announced he was pardoning Richard M. Nixon, the former Republican president and his old boss who resigned weeks earlier in disgrace, accused of obstruction of justice and...