Originally posted by Traveler
What part of "he pardoned Nixon", don't you understand. He sold out. Equal Justice. If he hadn't pardoned Nixon, the nation would have what???I'd really like to know. That "helped the nation start healing" is a crock.
Politicians are a joke. In the last Congress 9 junior congressman (elected every two years) went to congress the only now millionaires of the 400. Today, just two years later, there all millionaires. Go figure. yea, they got your interests at hart.
I get every bit of "he pardoned Nixon". I hated him for it at the time. I gleefully voted against him when I had the chance because of it. What I have come to realize over the years though is that the nation was coming apart during those days. All we needed then was the circus atmosphere of a protracted trial to finish the job of splintering us, perhaps irreperably. I personally was ready for a revolution in this country and was by no means alone. I remember those days very well. The Nixon affair was only the last straw in a big bale.
Do I think Nixon should have gone to jail? Yes. But the benefit of hindsight tells me that his pardon put the whole affair to bed quickly so that we could move on.
Do I think all politicians are crooks? HELL yes, the vast majority of them! If they aren't corrupt to begin with they are shortly corrupted by "the machine", are absorbed by it and then become just another corrupt cog in it. At this time I will forgo what would be a very lengthy diatribe on my view of U.S politics.
All that aside, I don't know and will never know Ford's motive for pardoning Nixon. All that I do know is that at this point I'd prefer to look back and see that the whole matter was ended sooner rather than later viewing the consequences that might have been.
