Question

What was one factor that led to Gerald Ford’s pardoning of Richard Nixon?

A. The American public demanded that Nixon be pardoned.
B. Ford believed that pardoning Nixon would help the divided nation begin to heal.
C. Ford believed that Nixon was innocent of the crimes he was of which he was accused.
D. Congress put pressure on Ford to pardon Nixon.

Answer 1

the answer for this question is B.

Answer 2

B. Ford believed that pardoning Nixon would help the divided nation begin to heal.

Step-by-step explanation:

This could been seen in his reference to the justifiying his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States.

It is a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision that suggested that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that its acceptance carries a confession of guilt. Since the watergate scandal has so much divided the country, he tried to end the story by pardoning the person upon which the crime revolves around