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President Gerald Ford explains his pardon of President Richard M. Nixon to Congress.  Ford defends his decision as being in the interest of the country.

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When Gerald Ford took over the Presidency following President Nixon’s resignation, he famously said: “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Here Ford describes the thought and debate that went into this description. After much reflection and discussion with his wife, Betty, he kept it in and was, in retrospect, glad he did.

Interview was conducted by CBS News correspondent Phil Jones,

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“I definitely think that it was wrong. I think I was misled. I think I was mistaken. I think I made a serious error.” On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore carried out an assassination attempt against U.S. President Gerald Ford. It was the second assassination attempt against President Ford in just a 17 day span of time. Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her crime. She had a brief escape from jail in 1979, but was recaptured after only hours. After serving 32 years of her life sentence, Moore was released on parole in 2007 at the age of 77.

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In an interview with Larry King, former president and first lady, Gerald and Betty Ford, lament the death of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. Betty Ford expresses empathy for her fellow former first lady, and describes Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s love story as “one of the greatest love stories of all time.” When prompted, she also briefly goes into her experience of feeling terror for her husband due to the assassination attempts made on Gerald Ford’s life during his time as President.

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The White House
Washington
November 2, 1976
Memorandum For The President
From: James E. Connor

Attached is a set of materials prepared for the transition to your second administration.

The first paper, entitled “Planning the Transition” identifies items you may wish to consider in order to ensure maximum flexibility in shaping the policies, structure and people of your new administration. It is basically a paper designed to prevent events from getting out of control during the transition period. A second paper entitled “Presidential Objectives” sketches out a series of objectives around which you might wish to organize your second administration. The themes of peace, prosperity and trust are identified as the key elements and specific policy and programmatic suggestions are identified under each of these three themes. If you choose to pursue these objectives, some brief organizing principles are identified. The third paper entitled “Modern Mid-term Transitions: The Implications for President Ford” was prepared by the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government under the direction of Jonathan Moore. That paper examines in some detail mid-term transitions form Eisenhower to Nixon. It concludes that most mid-term transitions have not been successful because the re-elected President lost his chance for shaping events in the direction he wished. The first 11 pages of the study, which summarize previous transitions, may be of interest to you.

(In hand writing: Never submitted to the President- for obvious reasons R. Cheney 1/20/77)

Source: research.archives.gov

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