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To: KosmicKitty

17 posted on 12/27/2016 12:27:55 PM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: ctdonath2; ridesthemiles
A good question came up about the date on the letter/photo I posted. Seems there are several variations of the letter out there on the Internet, having the same core content but formatted differently; this one oddly has the date 3/18/94 (97?) on it while the others don't. My guess is that Ford signed other copies as well, possibly for autograph seekers, with this one having the style of an older man with the late date he signed it.

Here's another variation, without written date and a "younger" signature:

Upshot is that Ford pardoned Nixon _without_ specifying any crimes; to the contrary, he rather pointedly addressed the lack of information thereof. So yes, there is precedent for Obama to pardon Hillary without specifying crimes (much less indictment); there's also precedent for Trump to drop the subject on the grounds of wanting to get on with the job of running the country rather than getting bogged down in the mire of rendering justice on scandals past.

82 posted on 12/27/2016 3:39:51 PM PST by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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