2007-02-18 06:35:06 · 11 answers · asked by yekaah 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I believe that most people at the time believed that it was more that Ford was liked by both houses of Congress and would be easily confirmed. He was not controversial. The pardon was Ford's idea, he said, to end the embarassment of the whole Watergate thing.
2007-02-18 06:39:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
N O, It was President Ford's own idea to pardon President Nixon, because Ford was
looking for a way to unite this country because
of the Vietnam War and he thought that pardoning Nixon would bring the country together again.
2007-02-18 06:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only one which quite is familiar with is lifeless now. All different solutions are in simple terms hypothesis. i'm hoping he under no circumstances regretted it. on the time, taking a former president and putting him on trial could have been very devisive. some solutions indexed right here are slightly off the mark. Nixon's crimes weren't that somebody in his administration spied yet that Nixon worked to conceal it up. The info replaced into sketchy. If the info replaced into sparkling as a bell, Ford could have desperate to not subject the pardon. yet another excuse the pardon replaced into granted replaced into that the country replaced into in simple terms ill and bored stiff in the great mess. It replaced into distracting us from extra important concerns. It replaced into additionally reported it is what fee Ford the reelection. it quite is actual to an volume. Ford additionally made a large errors in the debates with Carter. His errors replaced into the nail in the colfin. Ford replaced right into a solid guy. His place in background could have been to bridge the hollow between Nixon and the inevitable president to be elected from the competition occasion. Too undesirable it became out to be Carter, the extra severe president we've ever had. Carter's place replaced into to pave the way for Renauldus Maximus.
2016-12-17 13:08:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has been debated about for decades. Some say Yes, others No.
I believe Nixon did select Ford with that in mind, but also because Ford had a similar agenda.
2007-02-18 06:48:30 · answer #4 · answered by Murray H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If Mr Nixon had psychic abilities why didn't he just plan better so his guys wouldn't get caught? Then he would have been able to continue being the president.
2007-02-18 06:49:01 · answer #5 · answered by Mother 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not necessarily a "yes" or "no" question. I do think Nixon chose someone who would be loyal to his agenda and to him personally, and someone who may have been inclied to have pardoned him- I think when he chose him as VP in 1973 he didn't think it would come to that. On the other hand, I don't think there was "quid pro quo" so to speak.
2007-02-18 06:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by Patrick M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That might have been part of the deal, and in hindsight this act is considered one of the best decisions Ford ever made.
2007-02-18 06:39:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no that is nonsense.nixon could never have forseen the circustances that would cause him to resign.
ford did the right thing for the good of the country and kept things on an even keel.he did a great job.he was honest and a man of principle who would never have been coerced into doing what he did not want to do of his own volition.
to say anything else is to diminish a man of substance.
2007-02-18 06:44:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the big Dick had to quit his presidential job or was forced to. Ford was the vice president at the time. Good enough, yes?
2007-02-18 06:43:42 · answer #9 · answered by FILO 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think that was part of the deal. It turned out to be the right thing to do as it helped to close that sordid chapter of our history.
2007-02-18 06:42:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋