A Powerful Pardon | The Nixon Era
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop revisits Sunday September 8, 1974 when President Ford announced his pardon of Richard Nixon.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America's Presidential carnival.
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| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to Whistlestop, I'm John Dickerson of Face the Nation. |
| 0:47.0 | A president sat behind the polished wooden table of a House Congressional Committee room. |
| 0:55.0 | He was there to testify to the details of a private meeting, a solitary exchange between two men whose recollection of events could determine the destiny of a young administration |
| 1:04.4 | and whether either one of those two men could wind up in the chafing baggy institutional |
| 1:10.6 | uniform of a federal incarceration facility. |
| 1:14.0 | The star witness was the 38th President, Gerald R. Ford, |
| 1:17.8 | all domed forehead and looking like the established owner of a group of regional banks. A month before the new president shocked the nation when he said, |
| 1:25.6 | I Gerald R Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article 2, |
| 1:39.4 | Section 2 of the Constitution. Have granted and by these presence do grant a full free |
| 1:49.0 | and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon. |
| 1:52.0 | Just 30 days before uttering those words Ford still had a vice at the start of his title |
| 1:57.6 | almost immediately after pardoning Nixon conspiracies rage did Ford and |
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