Reply #9: Sorry, I have to disagree. Ford was playing the role he first debuted in [View All]

And that is political damage control. He did this on the Warren Commission, and that is what he did with the Nixon pardon. And in both instances his clean up work proved more damaging in the long run for all of us.

Just think what would have happened if we had got to the bottom of the Kennedy assasination. Hell, Vietnam might have ended much earlier than what it did. Hell, Nixon might not have even gotten into office.

As far as pardoning Nixon, Ford was insuring that the political machinery behind Nixon didn't suffer any damage, or even much exposure to the light of day, and that they were free to persue their dirty tricks when Reagan, Bush I and Bush II came around. If we had had a thorough probing of the Watergate mess, we might very well not be sitting here today bitching about the Bush administration, since it was Poppy, among a few select others, who was doing the dirty work for the 'Pugs at the time, both in the CIA and out.

I can never forgive Ford for his role in these matters, because in both instances he thwarted justice, and Lord have we as a country paid the price for that.