Posted on 09/09/2014 8:21:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It probably hurt the GOP in the 1974 midterm elections. In fact, I was a college volunteer on some campaigns in that election. The party people that I was listening to agreed with the pardon but screamed the same question: "Why didn't he do it after the election"?
And it probably cost him the very close presidential election of 1976. The pardon was used by the Carter campaign to promote their campaign of "change."
However, it was the right thing to do and further evidence that some presidents lead and others do “hope and change”.
Let’s recall the events of September 8, 1974:
“……President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon‘s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal.”
As I recall, it happened on a Sunday morning. I was leaving mass and headed home to have lunch with my parents when I heard the flash on the radio. I saw the TV reports with my father when I got home. My father's initial reaction was that it made sense but it would be politically difficult.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ford was part of the old WWII gentlemanly republican left that helped destroy America by being being socially liberal, which means that the democrats were given free rein to deconstruct America culturally and morally, while the two sides fought over taxes.
Ford was the hapless President who PLEADED with the Democrat controlled Congress for funds to support South Vietnam.
The Dems said no and and the rest is history (including the subsequent killing fields of Cambodia ).
It’s being repeated in Iraq when we withdrew our troops in 2012.
Ford did not want to pardon Nixon, but,
Nixon had proof that Ford helped "doctor" the JFK autopsy report for the Warren Commission (removing the proof of 2nd shooter).
Ford (obviously) decided to pardon Nixon.
Ford was the mastermind of the Kennedy cover-up.
Dead On. If air cover had been maintained, Vo Nguyen Giap would have never been able to send tanks South through the DMZ and destroy the ARVN infantry...who frankly didn't need much persuasion to run.
The rest is brutal history: 2 million dead in "Kampuchea", and unknown tens of thousands executed in South Vietnam.
Just call him Doofus.
Thanks for sharing as I had never before heard Ford’s name mentioned in the investigation into the assassination of JFK.
We could have impeached Clinton and now we could impeach Obama.
The American people would see that if they got a tingle up their collective leg to vote for a sweet talkin' empty suit they wouldn't have to wait four years to atone for their mistake.
Apparently.
The author and the radio-show guy were talking as if this was common knowledge - I was kind of blown-away that I'd never heard that before (and I was raised by JBS members....)
RE: We could have impeached Clinton
We DID impeach Clinton. Didn’t work to remove him. And we even had the GOP in control of both houses then.
Yes the HOP had control but you need 66 votes in the senate and they didn’t have that.
All that did was delay the Democrat drive to make being a Republican a crime for about a decade.
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