Michael Beschloss: 'If the House had referred Nixon for possible criminal charges ... that would have sent a message to later presidents like Donald Trump that you cannot run roughshod against the law for four years and expect to get away with it.”
, he described privately telling Gerald Ford in 1994 that Ford had gone too far in pardoning Richard Nixon, because “that’s a message to later presidents and later Congresses and later groups of Americans that presidents can live in sort of a free-fire zone and do all sorts of things and not ultimately pay for it.”“If the House had referred Nixon for possible criminal charges ...
“So the House of 2022 is doing what the House of 1974, I think, should have done, which is to say, ‘This is what you did, and we consider it so serious that you may have to face criminal prosecution.’”
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