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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:27 AM Aug 2013

The President Has Resigned...

Richard M. Nixon resigned the Presidency on this day in 1974.

https://twitter.com/LeoMcGarry/status/365465249308086272

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The President Has Resigned... (Original Post) onehandle Aug 2013 OP

Knowing he would be pardoned for his crimes, known and unknown Coyotl Aug 2013 #1

And pardoning Nixon let the repukes know that they could get away with anything. hobbit709 Aug 2013 #6

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How do you know that? nt boston bean Aug 2013 #5

Do you actually believe all this vitriol about Hillary Clinton BainsBane Aug 2013 #7

Problem solved. At least short term. William769 Aug 2013 #9

Wow, do I remember that day. Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #3

Remember how you felt when Ford pardoned him???? dixiegrrrrl Aug 2013 #10

Jerry Ford-- Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #12

i was hoping for his prosecution....it set a standard that you could get away with shit spanone Aug 2013 #4

But he's still with us in spirit. n/t malthaussen Aug 2013 #8

I thought he resigned on the 9th? hughee99 Aug 2013 #11

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)

1. Knowing he would be pardoned for his crimes, known and unknown

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:29 AM

Aug 2013

No wonder he held up the victory sign as he left the White House!

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

6. And pardoning Nixon let the repukes know that they could get away with anything.

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:34 AM

Aug 2013

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boston bean

(36,219 posts)

5. How do you know that? nt

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Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:32 AM

Aug 2013

BainsBane

(53,016 posts)

7. Do you actually believe all this vitriol about Hillary Clinton

Reply to boston bean (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:45 AM

Aug 2013

stems from anything other than misogyny? Lots of people, including Biden, voted for the war, yet somehow Clinton is the villain.

William769

(55,144 posts)

9. Problem solved. At least short term.

Reply to boston bean (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:58 AM

Aug 2013

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

3. Wow, do I remember that day.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 10:30 AM

Aug 2013

I heard it on the radio of an old girlfriend's little red Dodge Dart while we were driving to a party. That party got pretty wild in celebration of the news.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

10. Remember how you felt when Ford pardoned him????

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:26 AM

Aug 2013

I was not as tuned into politics then as I am now, and did not see that coming.
Made me sick to my stomach.
Later I realized what a patsy Ford was.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

12. Jerry Ford--

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #10)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:35 AM

Aug 2013

A long history of doing the hard lifting--whitewashing the Kennedy assassination conspiracy, pardoning Nixon, and all-around finkery:

From Wikipedia:

According to a 1963 FBI memo released in 2008, Ford secretly provided the FBI with information about two of his fellow commission members, both of whom were unsure about the FBI's conclusions about the assassination.[44] The FBI position was that President Kennedy was shot by a single gunman firing from the Texas Book Depository. Another 1963 memo released in 1978 stated that Representative Ford volunteered to advise the FBI regarding the content of the commission's deliberations if his involvement with the bureau was kept confidential, a condition which the bureau approved.[45] Ford was an outspoken proponent of the single-assassin theory.[46] According to the same reports, Ford had strong ties to the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover.[46]