I can’t possibly disagree more. I don’t think you understand how restrictive an actual prison is.
None of the Nixon co-conspirators went to actual prison; they went to Club Fed.
If you want to know exactly how it was, no need to guess. Chuck Colson wrote a book about his experiences there.
You know, other than the part where he only got to be president in the first place by making an agreement with Nixon that if he resigned, he’d get a pardon.
He was already VP, and you have no idea what you’re talking about. Literally. You have zero idea of how widely these people were hated. Ford was an incumbent Republican and should have won re-election by a landslide. Instead, he did not win at all. And he had no choice but to run because without him the Republicans had no viable candidate at all.
When Nixon resigned, there were no charges against him, only against his co-conspirators, and there was zero guarantee that there ever would be. Nixon literally had NOTHING to give Ford except the promise to get out of town and at least not destroy what was left of the office and his party.
You should at least read more about what actually happened from people who were there. This conjecture about a pardon deal – that you can’t even back up with so much as a guess at a REAL quid pro quo and from which Ford got nothing but the retirement he was looking for anyway – was the product of later conspiracies, not current events in 1974.
And you have no idea how Ford even came to be VP, do you, or how that plays into this at all? Nope. Not a clue.
I don’t see how pardoning Nixon helped solve any of that or how they make the pardon any less of a travesty.
I know. You’re far too busy judging the 1970s by 21st century ideals.
Heinous crimes were committed against the integrity of our country’s ability to have democratic elections, and actual, real, legal conquences MUST follow, or the next asshole will comfortably push things even harder.
On this we completely agree. There is NO comparison between Nixon and Trump, and I made that clear. It’s a shame you had to ignore that and create a strawman to slay to get to this sentence, because I’d have agreed with you anyway.
And just so we’re clear: the most the Republican senators of August, 1974 ever did was withdraw their support for Nixon’s presidency in the face of an impeachment. Nixon resigned. There is NO guarantee whatsoever that any of them would have followed up with anything more, and to pretend so is just one more demonstration of you ignorance of history.
None of the Nixon co-conspirators went to actual prison; they went to Club Fed.
If you want to know exactly how it was, no need to guess. Chuck Colson wrote a book about his experiences there.
He was already VP, and you have no idea what you’re talking about. Literally. You have zero idea of how widely these people were hated. Ford was an incumbent Republican and should have won re-election by a landslide. Instead, he did not win at all. And he had no choice but to run because without him the Republicans had no viable candidate at all.
When Nixon resigned, there were no charges against him, only against his co-conspirators, and there was zero guarantee that there ever would be. Nixon literally had NOTHING to give Ford except the promise to get out of town and at least not destroy what was left of the office and his party.
You should at least read more about what actually happened from people who were there. This conjecture about a pardon deal – that you can’t even back up with so much as a guess at a REAL quid pro quo and from which Ford got nothing but the retirement he was looking for anyway – was the product of later conspiracies, not current events in 1974.
And you have no idea how Ford even came to be VP, do you, or how that plays into this at all? Nope. Not a clue.
I know. You’re far too busy judging the 1970s by 21st century ideals.
On this we completely agree. There is NO comparison between Nixon and Trump, and I made that clear. It’s a shame you had to ignore that and create a strawman to slay to get to this sentence, because I’d have agreed with you anyway.
And just so we’re clear: the most the Republican senators of August, 1974 ever did was withdraw their support for Nixon’s presidency in the face of an impeachment. Nixon resigned. There is NO guarantee whatsoever that any of them would have followed up with anything more, and to pretend so is just one more demonstration of you ignorance of history.