https://ift.tt/2wwdHAe ‘No One Could Believe It’: When Ford Pardoned Nixon Four Decades Ago Amnesties, Commutations and Pardons, Watergate Affair, Presidents and Presidency (US) In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for his role in Watergate. It remains the pardon others have been measured against, as a debate over pardon power is revived. LAURA M. HOLSON https://ift.tt/2MdbZGC September 8, 2018 at 05:30AM