Posted on 10/17/2023 11:38:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Oct. 17, 1974, forty-nine years ago today, President Gerald Ford made an historic appearance before Congress to testify about his pardon of former President Richard Nixon, which he had issued on Sept. 8. Nixon had resigned on Aug. 9 to avoid certain impeachment and removal from office for his cover-up of the Watergate break-in and other misdeeds.
As a member of the subcommittee hearing Ford’s testimony, I challenged the president about the pardon, the only one to do so, asking him about a “deal” and the suspicious way the pardon was issued. Now, nearly a half century later, I am troubled by how many people still have not learned the lessons of the Nixon pardon or understand the damage it caused, and the threat it continues to pose for our country.
The pardon was deeply unpopular, a fact obscured by the myth, originated by Ford, that the country needed to move on. Most Americans could handle seeing justice meted out to those who broke the law. In 1974, most Americans also knew the details of Nixon’s misdeeds through the Senate Watergate hearings and the House impeachment proceedings which culminated in a bi-partisan Judiciary Committee vote to impeach Nixon. Those proceedings won widespread public approval. But it was followed by a pardon which was viewed as condoning Nixon’s wrongful acts.
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Liz Holtzman
She’s still around?
These Pig-Whoore Demons live a very long life.
Bury it Liz. You sucked when you were in the game. You’re worse now that your 82 yo arms are throwing bombs from the sidelines.
Just go quietly into that goodnight . . .
When the full truth about what happened to Nixon is revealed, what is now commonly held to be true will be considered absurd and downright silly.
Clue: It wasn't the politicians. It was the dominant progressive Media.
Elizabeth Holtzman was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 11, 1941, to Russian immigrants Sidney Holtzman, a lawyer, and Filia Ravitz, who had a doctorate from Columbia University and later headed the Russia department at Hunter College. She has a twin brother. Her family is Jewish, and she attended Hebrew school. She attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Abraham Lincoln High School. She was elected vice president of the student government in 1958, while her brother was its president. Holtzman graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1961, where she majored in American history and literature, and from Harvard Law School in 1965.[1][2][3][4][5] She was one of 15 women in the 500 students in her Harvard Law School class.[6] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[7]
Unmarried and childless.
Wait until the Biden pardons . . .
I was alive and an adult back then. The fact is the whole Watergate business helped to tear the nation apart, politically. Remember that Nixon won the election in a 49-state landslide and the idea that he was forced to resign did nothing to unite the nation.
Yes, democrats were bitter at not being able to put Nixon in jail, but Ford was right. After months of turmoil the nation needed to move on from Watergate.
And now here we are with dems wanting to put another Republican President, who they hate, in jail.
Didn’t know this wretched old hag was still around.
I watched the Watergate hearings and still to to this day am proud that my first time voting helped reelect President Nixon.
My good friend’s husband was on her security detail with the NYPD. He despised her.
Nixon was a globalist, very liberal king rhino.
It took awhile but the truth eventually came out that Nixon was framed. I imagine most people still think he was a crook. Rep Pilled America had a 10 part series on Nixon and that is what I base my opinion on. As to Trump’s guilt it is obvious the whole thing is a farce. You can only cry wolf for a limited number of times.
And he was the best President we could have had at the time against the Socialist Democrats attempting to take over the nation.
The smart half doesn’t need anything revealed - we knew back then Watergate was BS, just like the smart half today knows this crap against Trump is BS.
This women is part of the dumb half - they will never figure it out.
Really, normalizing red China and growing the Great Society?
That’s right - and he was NOT a globalist RINO like that cowboy says. He was passionately anti-communist and anti deep state - otherwise they wouldn’t have forced him out.
Barren, ugly and void of any trait a man looks for.
It’s a shame your friend did such a good job. I am kidding sort of.
You don’t need a pardon if you haven’t committed a crime.
That is true when he was a Congressman,ND he deserves everlasting thaks for getting Hiss. But he admired Woodrow Wilson, and petsued a Wilson8an foriegn policy. To compare him to President Trump is an insult to Trump.
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