Believe Quote by Richard Ben-Veniste

At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former…

— Richard Ben-Veniste

[Gerald Rudolph ] Ford pardoned Richard Nixon to save everybody that, and the Democrats were ticked about it.

— Rush Limbaugh

Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2,…

— Gerald R. Ford

I remain convinced that pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do.

— Gerald R. Ford

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

— Morley Safer

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment,…

— John Podesta

In the post-Watergate atmosphere of 1975 and 1976, the just-plain-folks personalities of both Ford and Carter seemed the perfect antidote to Nixon's arrogant, isolated…

— Jeff Greenfield

“Ford was a cover-up artist for the Warren Commission. His crime of lies about Oswald in his book and the cover-up of hard evidence…

— Mae Brussell

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

— Earl Butz

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country,…

— Bob Woodward

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.

— Stephen Ambrose

Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.

— Bella Abzug