In September 1974, following the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation, Ford issued a full pardon for any crimes Nixon “committed or may have committed” against the United States.

Senator Bob Dole (R-Kan.), a longtime defender of Nixon, opposed Ford’s controversial pardon of the disgraced president in the middle of a close reelection bid in 1974. “The pardon of Nixon was ...

Biden issued those pardons in response to indications that Trump would use the massive powers of the Department of Justice and the FBI to prosecute perceived political enemies. In ...

But President Gerald Ford saved Nixon from criminal indictments by issuing a pardon. Ford claimed it would end the nation’s “long national nightmare.” He was wrong. He simply postponed it.