newly installed President Gerald Ford simply got tired of questions about the legal fate of resigned predecessor Richard Nixon. So, on Sept. 8, 1974, Ford went ahead and pardoned Nixon ...

American presidents are empowered by Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, "to grant reprieves and pardons for ...

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President Gerald Ford reads a proclamation in the White House on Sept. 8, 1974, granting former president Richard Nixon “a full, free and absolute pardon” for all “offenses against the ...

Can you really call yourself a has-been until you “has been” pardoned by President Donald J. Trump? It’s the latest trend ...

Nixon, who was given a blanket pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974. “I have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses that have not apparently even been ...

Gerald Ford. Toobin’s thesis is brashly revisionist; Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon has gone down in history as a great act of beneficence. According to conventional wisdom, by immunizing ...