The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, “The Pardon: The Politics of ...

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...

Ford’s pardon proclaimed a new doctrine in American law and politics — that one president can absolve another president for anything and everything. No wonder that Nixon told interviewer ...

Announcer: Ford meant to say January 1969, not July. In any event, the pardon covered all of Nixon's days in the White ... them would not change with the new Administration. But Ford had to ...

Slate’s Timothy Noah bravely holds out against the conventional wisdom in praise of Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. The trouble is, Noah doesn’t so much have an argument as he has a snit.