Pardons rarely attracted much attention thereafter, until Watergate. As the scandal mushroomed, Nixon contemplated pardoning the burglars who broke into the Democratic national headquarters as ...

How this unfettered clemency power came to be written into our Constitution and how, in spite of frequent abuse, it seems ...

For those who were around at the time of the 1970’s spectacle involving Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Jeffrey Toobin’s exciting new book just published, "The Pardon," is an ...

Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity that the position had lost during the Nixon administration, has died.

Pete Rose, banned from baseball over gambling violations, is getting a measure of posthumous redemption through a pardon for ...

Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the ...

Can a president pardon himself, as Donald Trump proclaimed he could in 2018? Should he be allowed to pardon his family members, friends or co-conspirators, or even traitors? What about people who ...

Nixon, facing impeachment for Watergate crimes, had quit; Vice President Ford had replaced and pardoned him; and a nation and its press, fed up with lies and deception, looked upon the new ...

The president pardoned the former Illinois governor on ... as a player during the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and the Cincinnati Reds won back-to-back World Series with ...

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.