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A Ford/Nixon Conspiracy? [VIDEO]

Ford may have promised to pardon Nixon in order to become president...
December 28, 2006  |  
 
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Through the stench of Ford hagiographies comes this story from the memory of Nation publisher Victor Navasky.

Back when Ford penned his autobiography, the Nation got a hold of an early copy, re-publishing portions indicating that Ford may or may not have made a deal with Nixon to pardon or not pardon the disgraced president.

Navasky, an old-school New Yorker, tells the story peppered with remarks about Sandra Day O'Connor, Ford's football days, and of course the lawsuit against the Nation that went all the way up to the Supreme Court...

Transcript after the jump...

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.

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