Granting pardon to Richard Nixon: A Proclamation
September 8, 1974
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
Signed by Ford in 1974 in black felt-tip pen. Explains that a trial against Nixon could not begin for a year or more and that, "the tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks could be irreparably lost by the...
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