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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1466007)	7/2/2024 9:31:43 PM
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"Presidents have always been above the law." Nixon and Clinton didn't think so. Proclamation pardoning Richard Nixon, 1974 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History \| A month later, on September 8, President Ford issued a proclamation granting a "full, free, and absolute pardon" to Nixon extending to any actions he had taken . -- The Nixon pardon in constitutional retrospect The National Constitution Center Sep 8, 2023 — In Burdick v. United States, the Court ruled that a pardon carried an "imputation of guilt" and accepting a pardon was "an admission of guilt.”. -- Bill Clinton's Plea Bargain Capital Research Center Jan 20, 2021 — On January 19, 2001, the day before Clinton’s final day in office, Clinton and the Office of the Independent Counsel agreed to a deal whereby the President would not be prosecuted for perjury and obstruction of justice but would be required to surrender his law license for five years.