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To: hmaly who wrote (156797)	12/27/2002 9:10:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579974

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.