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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 7 days
For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
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RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW
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Meredith Hindley @mhindley.bsky.social · 7 days
I also can’t help think of this decision as the American version of Germany’s 1933 Enabling Act. Go do crimes! Have fun!
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 7 days
Do not like.
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Meredith Hindley @mhindley.bsky.social · 7 days
Me either. This is very bad.