by KiloWattKid on May 14th, 2008

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Why did Gerald Ford drop all charges against Nixon?

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by kedar on May 15th, 2008
Never-elected-President Gerald Rudolph Ford acknowledged that he pardoned Richard Milhous Nixon for personal reasons as much as anything -- later Ford himself remarked that he was going to Hell for pardoning Nixon.

By pardoning Nixon, he has helped save the GOP, by not exposing the criminal nature of that enterprise -- I believe Ford pardoned Nixon principally to head off any further investigation of the Watergate scandal, because of the many links to the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Ford pardoned Nixon, probably fulfilling a deal that got him the Presidency...though nobody had ever voted for a Presidential ticket with him on it

It would have been better for America if Ford had stood on the principle that no-one, NOT EVEN THE PRESIDENT, is above the law, instead, Ford set the precedent that a president can trash the constitution and get a free pass.
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  by Jodie44 on May 15th, 2008
- Hiya Jodie44, thank you. XOX
  
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  by kedar on May 15th, 2008
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by Someguy on May 14th, 2008
He pardoned Nixon before he was prosecuted. He didn't drop the charges.

He did so the country could drop the subject and get past it. The Viet Nam war was ending, race riots were happening and the country needed to move on.
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by RosieGHM Jetpacker on May 15th, 2008
They all make deals all the time..I think he made a deal with Nixon..just like "the decider" from the get-go had no intention of doing anything to "Scooter Libby".."dickie c" controlled that whole thing. So Scooter was let off the big hook..deals, backroom bargains, strongarm tactics..we the people always lose! :(
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by answerbeggar on May 15th, 2008
He's a forgiver, that's why he pardon, less embarrassing for both him and Nixon.
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