Gerald Ford. On September 8, 1974, Ford issued a pardon of former president Richard Nixon that was so sweeping that it practically condemned future generations of Americans to being governed by ...

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Ford: "I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United ... free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

And it was Richard Nixon who was the jovial one ... Says Brinkley: "What Ronald Reagan did to Gerald Ford in '76: he questioned whether this man was capable of being president, whether he had ...

President Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon a month later to his ... for this article was sourced from Farrell’s 2017 book “Richard Nixon: The Life,” Stephen E. Ambrose’s 1989 book “Nixon ...

(JTA) — Gerald Ford, who succeeded Richard Nixon as president after his resignation in 1974, was an anomaly: a president for less than a thousand days who was not elected as president nor vice ...

His pardon of Richard Nixon cost him national political approval. Gerald Ford inherited a presidency presiding over a much-troubled nation. The wounds of the Vietnam War had not yet begun to ...

"President Reagan makes available the plane to go over to carry Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter - three former presidents, all of whom had worked on Middle Eastern peace," Whitney said.