Sep 08 2008
Subversive Historian – 09/08/08
Listen to today’s Subversive Historian
Ford’s Pardon of Nixon by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Thirty-four years ago on this day in people’s history, President Gerald Ford gave Richard Nixon an unconditional pardon. On September 8th, 1974, Ford addressed the nation in a television broadcast less than a month after Nixon had resigned from the Oval Office. Justifying his pardon of Nixon for any crimes relating to the Watergate scandal, President Ford believed he was healing a nation. He told the American public, “The tranquility to which this nation has been restored could be irreparably lost by the prospects of bringing to trial a former President.” After Ford died in 2006, the corporate media issued him a pardon of their own characterizing his move in retrospect as controversial but necessary.
Due to Ford’s actions, the nation certainly moved beyond Watergate…and right into Reagan’s Iran-Contra scandal and Bush’s manipulated intelligence in the war against Iraq. Some kind of healing that was!
For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our history!
2 Responses to “Subversive Historian – 09/08/08”
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Good Luck
History is getting uglier.
Ford did the right thing. You really should enjoy life more instead of trying to bring up things that don’t matter anymore. I feel sorry that you choose to live like this. Take advantage of what this country has to offer you, if you’re legal, of course.