Now if Nixon had done that, they would’ve strung him up.
“Now if Nixon had done that, they would’ve strung him up.”
In all seriousness, if Nixon had done that, it would have been politically impossible for Ford to have pardoned him.
Watergate was a two-bit burglary, and the cover-up was just typical CYA, in comparison with with the lies, deceit, perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of office wrapped up in the IRS scandal. Then there is F&F, Benghazi, etc., etc.