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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,661 posts) Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:22 PM Oct 2020

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Asked if he would consider pardoning Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford said at his hearings ...

Asked if he would consider pardoning Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford said at his Vice Presidential confirmation hearings, "I don't think the American people would stand for it."

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Asked if he would consider pardoning Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford said at his hearings ... (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 OP

And sure enough, we didn't. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2020 #1

Ironically, the plane taking Ford's body over Alexandria for the last time and the plane mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2020 #2

Put up your umbrella!!!! MyOwnPeace Oct 2020 #3

And they didn't Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2020 #4

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,894 posts)

1. And sure enough, we didn't.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:34 PM

Oct 2020

Ford got his ass handed to him in the 1976 election, and he eventually acknowledged that pardoning Nixon had a whole lot to do with it.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,661 posts)

2. Ironically, the plane taking Ford's body over Alexandria for the last time and the plane

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 06:43 PM

Oct 2020

Trump is on headed to Johnstown right now were on the same flight path as they passed over my fair city.

MyOwnPeace

(16,940 posts)

3. Put up your umbrella!!!!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 07:15 PM

Oct 2020

You KNOW what could fall from THAT plane!

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,290 posts)

4. And they didn't

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 07:43 PM

Oct 2020

That's why he lost in 1976

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