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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (41319)	10/1/2000 1:22:03 PM
From: phyxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I think a President Bush is more likely to pardon Clinton than a President Gore. Bush has greater incentive to remove this major distraction from the beginning of his administration. Gore would be 1) more constrained by political considerations (the PR would be awful), and 2) more inclined to let Clinton beat up on any prosecutor foolish enough to try to extend this political witchhunt(the PR would be spectacular - the impeachment trial revisited). I agree about Ford - it was a singular act of political courage on his part to pardon Nixon. It was necessary and the right thing to do for the country, even if Nixon got off lightly for his actions undermining of our Constitution.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (41319)	10/1/2000 3:09:43 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Although he was a crooked SOB, Nixon resigned and spared the country the agony and damage to the office of the POTUS that Clinton has caused. For this reason alone I believed Ford was correct in pardoning Nixon. That does not obtain for Clinton. Justice must be done and the country needs to see that no man is above the law. JLA