Dick Cheney’s autobiography In My Time reviews the lives of political figures who have shaped America the past several decades. Cheney rubbed shoulders with many of Washington’s elites, gleaning wisdom from some of their lives.
Careful
observers gleaned one valuable lesson from observing the leadership of Gerald
Ford: some actions are only justified by time.
Cheney
shares the surprise he and many Americans, experienced when President Ford
announced on September 8, 1974, that he was issuing a full, free, and absolute
pardon to Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. Cheney writes, He
described his actions as a way to ‘shut and seal’ the matter of Watergate and
to mitigate the suffering of Richard Nixon and his family.
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