Barrett was Ford’s military attaché, carrying the briefcase always within reach of the president. It was dubbed the political ...

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Assess its impact. Clip #9: Pardon of Richard Nixon (3:21). What is Gerald Ford’s “primary concern” as president? What does Ford say his “conscience” tells him? Detail the various things ...

I teach at University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Ford's values are worth teaching, not Donald Trump's.

Bob Barrett began his association with Gerald Ford in 1974 when he became his Army presidential military aide and ended 50 years later with a personal memoir, “Inside the President’s Team: Family, ...

The last lesson is courage. Gerald Ford was awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon, in order to move beyond Watergate and ...

The only other precedent was President Gerald Ford's highly controversial move in which he pardoned “all offenses against the United States” that Nixon “has committed or may have committed ...

Over the years, presidents like Andrew Johnson Gerald Ford ... of the most well-known and controversial acts of pardon was when Ford gave Nixon a blanket pardon in 1974, after the Watergate ...