Meeting. And i had the luxury of time, two fulltime assistants. We looked at all the contemporary coverage of the pardon, got all the memoirs, got the legal memos from the ford library. I kept going back to interview ford. And to try to piece together what happened. I interviewed him in colorado a number of times, where he had a home, and many times at his main home at rancho mirage, california. I remember the last interview asking him, why did you pardon nixon . He said, you keep asking that question. I said, but i dont think youve answered it. And then he said, astonishingly, ok, im going to tell you. And he then said what happened is that al haig, nixons chief of staff, came and offered me a deal. He said, if you guarantee that the president will get a pardon, he will resign and you get the presidency. And ford said, however, i rejected that deal. I knew i was going to become president. Nixon was finished. So theres no way he could work that deal in the way haig described. And passi
It was exactly in the tradition of my brothers book profiles in courage. And then gerald ford got up and talked about partial vindication. I remember watching this and thinking here i was convinced it was an act of maximum corruption, that the pardon was. And then it is examined many years later, dispassionately. And what looked like corruption actually is an act of courage. And that is sobering for somebody in my business. You can say, oh, yeah, this is the following this war made no sense. This was a good war and so forth. And the decades go by and it may look quite differently. Jimmy carter, as somebody using lincoln in december 1979, as he was gearing up to run for reelection, in one of his speeches, carter said, at the height of the civil war, lincoln said, i have but one task and that is to save the union. Then carter went on to compare his responsibility in getting the 50 iranian hostages out as the same problem. He said he would devote his concerted efforts to that. And you loo
Headlights in the northbound direction to 24 to the dublin pleasanton area. 680 is looking great. 580 is looking great through dublin pleasanton from highway 4 to highway 24 you are looking at seven minutes. Not bad. Green is good. A little bit of slowing up and over the Altamont Pass. Unfortunately the commuters are used to that. We have a ramp closure nor a few more minutes. Northbound 880, the research to westbound 92 due to road work and eastbound and westbound road work, westbound should be cleared on the bay bridge eastbound is out this, three lanes, until 6 00 this morning. That car with the three tires, three whiles, did not know what happened to the tire but the car is off to Treasure Island offramp. It is not involved. Hopefully they will get that fixed and back with a look at the south bay drive in a few minutes. Police are having what a deadly shotting and a car trash were connected. They happened on east 14th street at 7 30 last night near the san leandro hospital. A man w
A large four the Apartment Building has to be evacuated and power lines are burned. Matt . The biggest concern is the building and that power pole come landing and coming collapsing and the power pole coming down. Firefighters have requested a fence be erected. This individual gave a car caught fire when the mechanics were working on it last night. The Apartment Building next door was evacuated. Firefighters were able to catch it and keep it from catching fire the no one else was hurt. Pg e got the power back on in the area after midnight. The street is shut down at good year street to Willow Street but it should not be an issue there are many ways to get around this closeure. Breaking out of san jose, firefighters put out a fire at an abandoned house at george and first with neighbors seeing someone throwing a molotov cocktail at the home but fire say that is not the case. They did not say what caused the fire but the property is known to be frequented by squatters. Police are investi
We looked into the pond because we see something floating and it was an orange shirt with a girl. They called pet and they con fairfield an adult woman was fund in the pond. They have not said how she died. That is a nice park. I always walk here. Nice park. People off for the walk fund themselves being detoured around crime tape and reacting with shock when they heard why. Horrible. Normally there are a lot of families and people walking the dogs and that is frightening. Those who saw the body are really having a hard time coming to terms with it. Crazy. Honestly, i am shocked. I wanted to believe it wasnt true. I was making myself think it wasnt true because i would never five things to know before you goes like that would happen here. Police have not released anymore information about the victim, they do think they are going to be here for several more hours. A accidental fire hit an apartment ending and friends are hoping people will step up with challenges for the own are. Pg e is