Announcer: Shortly after the Nixon pardon, Ford revealed he was offering conditional amnesty to all draft dodgers and military deserters who fled the country during the Vietnam War. President ...

On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Ed Markey recommended that President Joe Biden issue preemptive pardons to individuals President-elect ...

CNN anchor Jim Acosta raised former President Ford’s pardon of his predecessor, former President Nixon, in questioning former President Trump’s assertion of having total immunity from ...

Political observers suggest the outgoing president has nothing to lose and may be ready to take the heat to spare his son a ...

It has been a long tradition in America for presidents to grant pardons for those convicted of various crimes. This is one of ...

In 1974, Watergate year, 59% opposed President Ford’s decision to pardon Richard Nixon. But by 2002, an ABC News survey found that 59% believed that Ford had done the right thing in granting the ...

When Trump left office, he did so against the backdrop of an insurrection he had incited to attack the U.S. Capitol and prevent the certification of his loss. If he violently rejected the will of the ...

Ford then became president upon Nixon’s resignation in 1974 ... Ford had to refocus the people’s attention in the aftermath of Watergate; he bungled this when he pardoned Nixon only months after ...

Public affection vanished quickly, though, when Ford granted former President Nixon "a full, free and absolute pardon" for any crimes he may have committed. Testifying before a congressional ...

If I get elected president of the United States ... Researchers later found that “Ford’s pardon of Nixon was more highly correlated with the drop in political trust than were any of ...