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Nov 16, 2009 · White House tape recordings revealed that Nixon knew about and possibly authorized the bugging of the Democratic National Committee offices, located in the Watergate complex in Washington D.C...
- The First Resolution Formally Creating The Texas Rangers is Approved
On October 17, 1835, Texans approve a resolution to create...
- Benji
On October 17, 1974, Benji, a film about a stray dog who...
- Watergate
Six weeks later, after Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn...
- The First Resolution Formally Creating The Texas Rangers is Approved
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.
Sep 8, 2018 · In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for his role in Watergate. It remains the pardon others have been measured against, as a debate is revived over how pardons should be...
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In this speech before the Congressional Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, of October 17, 1974, President Gerald Ford explains his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. Nixon had resigned on August 9, 1974, and Ford pardoned his disgraced predecessor a month later, on September 8.
In particular, the pardon covered Nixon's actions during the Watergate scandal. In a televised broadcast to the nation, Ford, who had succeeded to the presidency upon Nixon's resignation, explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interests of the country and that the Nixon family's situation was "a tragedy in which we all have played a ...
- Gerald Ford on September 8, 1974
By the time of the pardon, enough Americans had become convinced that Nixon (named by the Watergate grand jury as an “un-indicted co-conspirator”) was guilty of crimes and that Ford had pardoned him as quid pro quo for becoming president that the approval rating of the otherwise popular new president collapsed overnight.
