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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (156799)12/27/2002 3:04:14 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1579896
 
After seeing what happened in Bill's case, all I can say the reps. avoided a potential big mess, which could have damaged the party. Courage or pork; probably both.

The Nixon pardon was bigger than party politics. The nation had been through a literal trauma; the pardon was done as a means to begin a healing process. I think Ford was thinking about more than just salvaging the party, and in fact, he took a great deal of political heat for having done so. Some have said it cost him the election.

And why do you think that was? He pardoned a common crook. And from what I read recently, Nixon's handling of the USSR was pretty cheesy as well.

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