Apart from the Ford pardon of Nixon, here's the pardon(s) against which all others should be compared: George Sr. getting himself (and perhaps Reagan as well) off the hook:
>>BUSH PARDONS 6 IN IRAN AFFAIR,
ABORTING A WEINBERGER TRIAL;
PROSECUTOR ASSAILS 'COVER-UP'
BUSH DIARY AT ISSUE<<
>>Mr. Walsh hinted that Mr. Bush's pardon of Mr. Weinberger and the
President's own role in the affair could be related. For the first time, he
charged that Mr. Weinberger's notes about the secret decision to sell arms to
Iran, a central piece of evidence in the case against the former Pentagon chief,
included 'evidence of a conspiracy among the highest ranking Reagan
Administration officials to lie to Congress and the American public.'
The prosecutor charged that Mr. Weinberger's efforts to hide his notes may
have 'forestalled impeachment proceedings against President Reagan' and
formed part of a pattern of 'deception and obstruction.' On Dec. 11, Mr.
Walsh said he discovered 'misconduct' in Mr. Bush's failure to turn over what
the prosecutor said were the President's own 'highly relevant
contemporaneous notes, despite repeated requests for such documents.'
The notes, in the form of a campaign diary that Mr. Bush compiled after the
elections in November 1986, are in the process of being turned over to Mr.
Walsh, who said, 'In light of President Bush's own misconduct, we are gravely
concerned about his decision to pardon others who lied to Congress and
obstructed official investigations.'<<
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