Question

What is the most likely reason president ford pardoned nixon?

Answer 1

- The prospects of such trial will cause prolonged and divisive debate over the propriety of exposing to further punishment and degradation a man who has already .

Answer 2

On September 8, 1974, The release of Richard Nixon by President Gerald Ford conferred Nixon, Ford's forerunner as president, full and absolute forgiveness for any violations he might have perpetrated upon the United States. After Ford departed from the White House in 1977, he confidentially defended his release of Nixon by taking in his pocket a piece of the handbook of Burdick v. the United States, that recommends that a discharge provides an accusation of weakness and that agreement offers a declaration of delinquency.