The Pardon: With Richard Norton Smith and Hank Meijer
Автор: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation
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The Exploration of a Controversial Decision, with Ford Biographer Richard Norton Smith and Board Trustee Hank Meijer
Gerald Ford’s pardon of his predecessor, Richard Nixon, was one of the greatest acts of political courage in postwar America. It was also one of the most controversial.
As Richard Norton Smith writes in An Ordinary Man, “Overnight, Ford’s approval rating dropped 22 points, a descent unmatched in the history of public opinion polling.”
“It will cost me the ’76 election, but I had to do it,” said Ford.
Privately, RNS writes, Ford revealed that he wasn’t forgiving Nixon so much as trying to forget him; more precisely, to redirect his energies, and the country’s attention, toward a rapidly deteriorating economy, as well as escalating tensions around the world.
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