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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC Jun 4

    “Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.” — President Gerald Ford, after Nixon resignation, August 9, 1974pic.twitter.com/cL6p0k3ToP

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      2. Elliott Christ‏ @elliottchrist Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        30 days later: “I, Gerald R. Ford...grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon.”

        3 replies 1 retweet 26 likes
      3. ExhaustedMom‏ @ExhaustedMom1 Jun 4
        Replying to @elliottchrist @BeschlossDC

        As will Pence.

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      2. Judah Friedlander‏Verified account @JudahWorldChamp Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @MalcolmNance

        and then he pardoned him. proving those words worthless.

        3 replies 4 retweets 36 likes
      3. casscounty‏ @aurielambert Jun 4
        Replying to @JudahWorldChamp @BeschlossDC @MalcolmNance

        he pardoned nixon to save the country from long, divisive, expensive process, which would have caused schism across the country, perhaps never to be healed. nixon staff were imprisoned, disbarred, president disbarred and humiliated for eternity. it was over. o v e r.

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      4. Tony SanFilippo‏ @OxideLounge Jun 4
        Replying to @aurielambert @JudahWorldChamp and

        But he didn't save the country at all. He paved the way for our current state of disrepair. He sent a message to the @GOP that they are allowed to do whatever they want and IF they are caught, someone will take care make sure there are no consequences.

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      2. David Darmofal‏ @david_darmofal Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @JohnJHarwood

        & less than a month later he pardoned Nixon, saying Watergate had been a tragedy for Nixon & that everyone had played a role in it. & justified that unconditional pardon as healing division while he refused to grant the same unconditional pardon to Vietnam draft resisters. 1/

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      3. David Darmofal‏ @david_darmofal Jun 4
        Replying to @david_darmofal @BeschlossDC @JohnJHarwood

        the elite D.C. consensus on the pardon needs to be reexamined. Arguably it led to elites believing that a different set of rules applies to them. Imagine if Nixon had been tried & convicted. What a different political culture re: wrongdoing we'd have now. 2/2

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      1. Bob Drummond‏ @bobdrummond Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @MalcolmNance

        When the Constitution says @realdonaldtrump must faithfully execute the laws, I don't think the founders meant "execute" in the sense of "put the rule of law in front of a firing squad and kill it."

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      2. Karen H  🏴‍☠️‏ @KarenMHJ Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        I blame FORD for all of this now. Every.Single.Member. of Nixon's administration should have been investigated and prosecuted. Then we would NOT have had creatures like Cheney slinking around DC with their 'Unitary Executive" and "Imperial Presidency" virus infecting Washington

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      3. Karen H  🏴‍☠️‏ @KarenMHJ Jun 4
        Replying to @KarenMHJ @BeschlossDC

        Those cancerous ideas SHOULD have died the day Nixon resigned, but because Ford let the carriers off the hook, they were able to make a comeback, first with Cheney and all of HIS minions, which lead to the grotesque exaggeration of every evil Nixon policy, come to life.

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      2. Jim Harris‏ @jimharris360 Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        And then he pardoned him.

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      1. Richard Taylor‏ @dakine100 Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Yeah. Too bad his pardon of Nixon put us on the path of no consequences for law-breaking in the Oval Office.

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      1. wizard prang‏ @wzrdprang Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @JohnJHarwood

        He shouldn't have pardoned Nixon though. I was a child at the time and I was DEVASTATED by that pardon. It was a clear message that there are rules for some that don't apply to others. I've never forgotten that day.

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      1. Marilyn Richardson‏ @bleutigredancin Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        This isn't an issue for the #GOP. On a recent walk, a large black pickup passed by, adorned w/ US & homemade Trump flags atop sapling poles, doors open, men standing in doorways holding guns pointed upward, whooping & hollering, making themselves known. I fear social unrest.

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      2. hunter s. wampson‏ @alsoHunter Jun 4
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        ...he said one month before fully pardoning the guy who resigned for getting caught breaking the law.

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