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frazzled

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3. Well, yeah, "preemptively" ...

Reply to RudynJack (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 15, 2013, 06:47 PM

Jan 2013

Nixon was alive and could have been charged. Ford prevented him from having to ever face that. It was hugely controversial.

There's no point to preemptively pardoning a deceased person.

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I don't think you can pardon someone who never went to trial and frazzled Jan 2013 #1

Ford pardoned Nixon RudynJack Jan 2013 #2

Well, yeah, "preemptively" ... frazzled Jan 2013 #3

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