Reply #9: Ford and the rest of the GOP needed to silence Nixon, and the best...

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...way to have done it was by pardoning him.

Nixon knew a lot of the background history of the U. S. from the late 1940s through the early 1970s. That background history included his role in the loss of Gary Powers' U-2, the assassination of Central American leaders, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Task Force, the assassination of JFK, the assassinations of RFK and MLK, Jr., the attempted assassination of George Wallace, and other topics too numerous to list.

If put on trial, Nixon would have dumped everything to avoid prison.