The state Supreme Court granted Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request on Wednesday for a posthumous pardon for Army Sgt. Richard Penry ...

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.

In what may be an American first, President Donald Trump pardoned a company sentenced to $100 million in fines for breaking ...

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 ...

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.