RIP Mr. President
My thoughts on the passing of President Gerald Ford, posted this morning at Dean’s World:
Did he do the right thing for the country by pardoning Nixon?
How you answer that question will pretty much show your feelings about President Ford.
I disagree with his decision to pardon Nixon and believe that President Ford would have been re-elected in 1976 had he done so. That would have spared us the Carter presidency, and the consequent rise of Islamic fascism that it encouraged.
In short, a two-term Ford presidency would have changed American history in ways that are scarcely imaginable today.
The choice to pardon Nixon was one of History’s great tipping points, and while I believe that President Ford made the wrong decision, I can’t help but think that he did so fully knowing that he was sacrificing his own future for his country.
I respect that – and him – even though I continue to believe he made the wrong decision.
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