- Ford pardons Nixon in 1974 https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/ford-pardons-nixon-in-1974/2017/07/21/c83efd54-6e3b-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_video.html 20 comments politics
- On this date in 1974, Gerald Ford became president, saying: "Our long national nightmare is over...our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men." One month later he pardoned Richard Nixon. http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/08/our-long-national-nightmare-is-over.html 6 comments history